Wednesday, July 29, 2009

An Innovation Roadmap: Criteria for Innovative Schools in the 21st Century



Today I will be joining a colleague from Teaching Matters at Alan November’s Building Learning Communities conference to speak with school leaders from around the world. We will be discussing the following questions.


  • What is a 21st Century School?
  • Where does my school stand on the continuum of 21st century success?
  • Where do I want to be?
  • How might I plan to get there?

At the conference we will be exploring this concept and looking at this question using a newly created tool called the Rubric for School Innovation. The Rubric provides a guide for thinking about different stages in the development of an innovative school. This tool offers a set of guiding questions and indicators of effectiveness and innovation, especially innovation made possible by technology.


You can find out where your school sits right now by visiting What Level is Your School? at The Innovative Principal area of the Teaching Matters website. Leaders can complete this with their staff, discuss the results, discuss where they want to be and then begin building an action plan for innovation to get there.


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Twitters can follow tweets during the conference using the tag 21CL

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