What year are you preparing your students for? 1973? 1995? Can you honestly say that your school's curriculum and the program you use are preparing your students for 2015 or 2020? Are you even preparing them for today? With those provocative questions, author and educator Heidi Hayes Jacobs launches a powerful case for overhauling, updating, and injecting life into the K-12 curriculum.

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A new essential curriculum for a new time / Heidi Hayes Jacobs -- Upgrading the curriculum : 21st century assessment types and skills / Heidi Hayes Jacobs -- Upgrading content : provocation, invigoration, and replacement / Heidi Hayes Jacobs -- New school versions : reinventing and reuniting school program structures / Heidi Hayes Jacobs -- Five socio-technology trends that change everything in learning and teaching / Stephen Wilmarth -- A classroom as wide as the world / Vivien Stewart -- Making learning irresistible : extending the journey of mabry middle school / Tim Tyson -- Media literacy : 21st century literacy skills / Frank W. Baker -- Digital portfolios and curriculum maps : linking teacher and student work / David Niguidula -- Educating for a sustainable future / Jaimie P. Cloud -- Power down or power up? / Alan November -- Creating learning connections with today's tech-savvy student / Bill Sheskey -- It takes some getting used to: rethinking curriculum for the 21st century / Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick.