Entrepreneurship Education in 21st Century Schools

Meet Ken Kay, President and Founder of
the Partnership for 21st Century Skills

Featured keynote speaker at the 24th Annual Entrepreneurship Education FORUM, to be held in Phoenix, AZ on Sunday, November 5, is Ken Kay, founder and president of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has emerged as the leading advocacy organization focused on infusing 21st century skills into education.

The organization brings together the business community, education leaders, and policymakers to define a powerful vision for 21st century education to ensure every child's success as citizens and workers in the 21st century.

The Partnership encourages schools, districts and states to advocate for the infusion of 21st century skills into education and provides tools and resources to help facilitate and drive change. Entrepreneurship literacy is among the major content areas being recommended by the Partnership as essential to be added in the curriculum.
www.21stcenturyskills.org.

Kay is also chairman and co-founder of Infotech Strategies, which has offices in Seattle, Tucson and Washington, D.C., and he is the head of its education technology practice. He will share with the entrepreneurship educators the need to foster greater consensus on the proper 21st century outcomes for K-12 education as well the need for more innovation and creativity within our current education model.

As executive director for the CEO Forum from 1996 to 2001, Ken facilitated dialogue between leaders in the business, government and education fields and led the group through development of the StaR Chart (School Technology & Readiness Guide), used by schools across the country to make better use of technology in the classroom. Ken also represented the Business-Higher Education Forum in the development of their landmark paper, "Building a Nation of Learners," which emphasizes the important role Higher Education must play in the redesign of learning.

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