How might we foster an innovation culture? What dispositions and habits of mind should be encouraged and examined? When do we create opportunities for sharing and imagining possibilities? How do we group our colleagues and community? How can students be involved? How do we sustain bold and imaginative thinking?
A New Kind of Learner: Refreshing Our Pedagogy
In order to shape a powerful mission and to take meaningful action, at root is grappling with our views of the role of the learner, the teacher, the leader, and the school. Likely there is a range of beliefs in play at your setting. What pedagogy is driving your choices now? Might you cultivate a look at a new kind of learner? A new kind of teacher? A contemporary school learning environment? How might we involve our education community into this investigation?