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Ten Tips for Creating a Culture of Innovation

Education Elements

Over the past six months I’ve explored hundreds of news stories, white papers, and blog posts focused on why and how leaders might foster a culture of innovation. Need bigger profits? Need better leadership? Unfortunately, innovation is too often be touted as a silver bullet solution without even defining what innovation is.

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How to Bring to Life the Science of Reading

ED Surge

You can understand someone else's culture, what they celebrate, what they honor and what they believe in, without personally asking. Are they culturally relevant for our kids? It makes me empathize with other people.” We're also looking for materials that the students can see themselves in.

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The Power of Local and National Community Connections

Digital Promise

The Rhode Island EdCluster (EduvateRI) convened diverse stakeholders to write a white paper that helped set the state’s vision on personalized learning. Within their local context, EdClusters drive powerful change within their communities.

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‘Guided play’ benefits kids—but what does that look like for parents?

The Hechinger Report

Are there any cultural preferences or personal preferences to keep in mind, for example, if a parent or a culture really values kids being independent or engaging mostly in free play? Traditionally, certain cultures have valued free play or direct instruction more than others, but things seem to be changing.

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The Pandemic’s Lasting Lessons for Colleges, From Academic Innovation Leaders

ED Surge

That’s a task that Stanford University researchers have been doing through an effort to draft a white paper that gathers observations about teaching and learning during the pandemic and notes key lessons that could be built on going forward.

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

ED Surge

That movie, which everyone in Silicon Valley and in the culture at large was talking about, was “The Social Network,” depicting the contentious creation of Facebook. And he wrote the white paper for it around the time of that bagel meetup for the Thiel Fellowship. Lots of people see this as a world-changing idea.

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Moving from Challenges to Solutions: The Future of Educator Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Moving from Investigate to Act, participants identified two solutions: creating micro-credentials to “certify” local assessors and developing a stack of micro-credentials for district leaders seeking to implement culture change around professional learning.