As important as assessment, standards, curriculum, professional development, and instruction are...the learning environment itself is the essential piece to supporting successful 21st century outcomes for students.

Why?...
Because every child has a right to the tools, technology, and resources needed for developing into lifelong learners and creators of knowledge.

Because every child deserves a highly qualified and effective teacher that has the support needed: resources, planning time, professional development, leadership.

"Educators can't truly deliver 21st Century instruction in schools that reflect Industrial-Age designs, with rigid schedules, inflexible facilities, and fixed boundaries between grades, descipline, and classrooms, according to a new white paper from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills."

-eSchool News, January 27, 2009