The big buzz word around our school at the moment is INNOVATION.
We've spent time defining what we mean by innovation. As I'm a less-is-more guy I think mine was along the lines of - new ideas/ways of doing things for changing times.
I like that this is a focus and I'm lucky to be at a place that even has a Director of Innovation.
Recently we had an interesting session looking back at how much innovation has taken place in the last few years (coincidentally, pretty much since I joined the staff four years ago). I was left with the feeling of, "OK - what next?".
For me the big three new ideas in education are - removing subject 'silo's (where subjects are taught in isolation to others), cracking open the timetable ('passion studies' is a new one on me), and changing the physical spaces.
With that in mind I came across this article from the Mind/Shift people about giving students choice during the day to create unstoppable learning.
Sounds pretty groovy to me!
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