# Presentation: 174191

## What does it mean to be successfully educated in the State of Illinois? 

- By:
- Jeff Norman
- Lee Peterson

## Guiding Questions

- What education should be?
- What is the outcome?
- Different systems of Education
- Define successful Education
- What is important?
- Whose goals?
- Are they SMART?
- Where does education fit in the priority list.

##  What education should be?

- ISBE states:
- The Illinois public schools will enable all students to succeed in post-secondary education and career opportunities, to be effective life-long learners, and to participate actively in our democracy.

## What is important?Nation Education Goals Panel

- Goal 1 - Ready to Learn
- Goal 2 - School Completion
- Goal 3 - Student Achievement and Citizenship
- Goal 4 - Teacher Education and Professional Development
- Goal 5 - Mathematics and Science
- Goal 6 - Adult Literacy and Lifelong Learning
- Goal 7 - Safe, Disciplined, and Alcohol- and Drug-free Schools
- Goal 8 - Parental Participation

## What is important? Woodstock High School Mission statement

**Woodstock High School's mission is to create rich, varied**
**educational experiences for all students that will enable them**
**to acquire skills and knowledge to be productive, successful,**
**and contributing members of a diverse society.**

## How will we know when the goal is reached?

- At this point we found nothing  addressing this issue.
- We feel a panel of Educators Government and Business leaders need to be brought together to formulate Statewide Goals and Assessments.

## Different systems of Education

- No research found to proved any system better than another.

## Define successful Education

- Currently definitions are set in the Mission Statements of the individual districts and State.

## Whose goals?

- US Department of Education states:**WHAT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DOES NOT DO**Under the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: "The powersnot delegated to the United States by the constitution, norprohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the Statesrespectively, or to the people." Nothing specific is said abouteducation in the Constitution; therefore it falls outsidefederal authority.In creating the Department of Education, Congress made clear itsintention that the secretary of education and other Departmentofficials be **prohibited from exercising "any direction,****supervision, or control over the curriculum program of****instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational****institution, school, or school system."** The establishment ofschools and colleges, the development of curricula, the settingof requirements for enrollment and graduation -- these areresponsibilities handled by the various states and communities,as well as by public and private organizations of all kinds, notby the U.S. Department of Education.

## Are they SMART?

- Specific
- Measurable
- Acceptable to all stakeholders
- Realistic
- Timely

## Where does education fit in the priority list?

**???**
- Our children are our future.

## Recommendation

- State needs to make Long Term Goals that include academics, culture and citizenship.
- Make the Assessments Long term
- Goals to follow SMART Format.