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Education Policy Has Been Trying Things That Do Not Work
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Successful Change Will Come with Accepting Three Realities
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Creating a ‘Climate of Encouragement’ For Innovation
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The Split-Screen Strategy, Voluntary and Gradual, Works
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A Simple Legislative Action Now Will Help Spread The Innovation
The preface to this 2015 book insists that, to get any effective change, it is essential to 'think outside the box'.
Many readers will recognize this graphic as the puzzle designed to test one’s ability at problem-solving. You’re asked to connect the nine dots with four straight lines.
Within the ‘box’ created by the nine dots it cannot be done.
Nobody said you couldn’t run the lines outside the box.
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Hemmed In by Our Preconceptions . . . ‘We Need To Try Different Routes to Solve Problems’
Paul MacCready and his Gossamer aircraft perhaps show us the way. (He won a large cash prize for a human-powered flight across the English Channel.) How did he do it when all the aeronautical experts had failed?
“Not having a background in structures permitted me to adapt some very simple-minded techniques . . . All the serious groups in England had big teams of qualified people that included aircraft structural designers . . .
NEW WORK
State Strategy is Having a 'Someone Else' Able to do What the Districts Don't
Below, you'll see my January paper summarizing the innovation being called ‘the New Technology of Schooling’. It’s with this innovation that all those concerned with Minnesota public education this year need to begin.
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