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Superintendents Strategy Summit 2010
The summit titled Innovation in Education: Developing and Scaling Effective Strategies spanned a complementary set of frameworks and discussions that encouraged member superintendents to think of innovation as an ongoing process that can be managed. Discussions progressed through three stages of innovation: 1) idea generation 2) testing and refinement of those new ideas and 3) scaling up the implementation of the proven ideas for maximum impact. These stages closely mirror the logic outlined in the federal Investing in Innovation (i3) grant description.
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In order to be competitive for much of the available federal grants like the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund, school districts must show examples of implementation and investment in innovative practices that have raised student achievement and teacher effectiveness.
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DMC defines innovation as a practical process that makes something better, faster, and cheaper that improves student achievement and educator effectiveness.
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The birth, growth and implementation of Houston ISD's ASPIRE performance management system.
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With a goal of graduating every student with the choice to attend college without remediation, John Barry, superintendent of Aurora Public Schools in Aurora, Colorado, worked with his team to move towards integrated instruction. The program's mission was to produce competitive graduates for the workforce, both nationally and globally.
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Districts should apply program and organizational management approaches for scaling innovations, determining what approaches maximize chances of continued success and whether the change will become easier or harder as the scale increases.
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District leaders should determine how to maximize resource use, manage new innovation, and determine the point of strategic abandonment in early failures are detected.
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Innovation is required to get out of the current economic crisis. School districts need to acquire a different kind of thinking to stabilize affected budgets and resources. In this economic downturn, school leaders should take advantage of easing on persmissions for issues previously off-limits to innovation.
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