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"I’ve been doing some thinking about how to best define innovation in education. I’ve been reading a lot of mission statements lately for schools and districts and keep finding the word “innovative” used, yet little sign of practices in the objectives, tactics and goals to back this up. The tactics and action plan seem to be oriented towards producing test scores and the practices seem 20th century at best."
Via Beth Dichter
Nancy White looks at definitions that businesses use to define innovative and then looks at how education defines innovation. Here is one of her statements:
"In education, innovation often results when ideas are applied to satisfy the needs and expectations of the students."
Take the time to click through to the post and read her other statements and then ask yourself 'Am I innovative? Is my classroom innovative? My school?" or "What changes need to be made to make my teaching, my classroom or my school innovative?"