Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way.

1. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Innovation In School
Effective innovations were rooted in whole-school
understandings and beliefs.

4. What is an Innovative Culture?
 An Innovative Culture is a nurturing environment.
 All employees (learners and educators) are
motivated to try new things.
 In an innovative culture, innovators are encouraged
and rewarded.
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is
the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the
old in a new way.
Innovation is doing new things.

5. "we have not prepared ourselves for the rate
of change or the consequences of change,"
 "aren't looking at the reality of our current context
but instead are looking at education as they wish it
was and as it used to be".
 The thing that kills me about education is that it’s so
touchy-feely. CCE say, ’Well, you know, test scores
don’t take into account creativity and the love of
learning.’ Creativity is good and whatever. But if the
children don’t know how to read, I don’t care how
creative you are. You’re not doing your job.”
 …at least two types of innovation
• Entirely new ideas
• Re-working of an old idea or the transferring
and embedding of existing ideas in to a new
setting

6. the nature of innovation ….?
Incremental
Innovation
•Minor modifications to
existing product
•Swims with the tide
•Starts with the present
and works forward
School
improvement ?
Radical
Innovation
•Significant breakthrough
representing major shift in
design
•Swims against the tide
•Starts with the future and
works backwards
Transformation ?
From presentation by Valerie Hannon, Innovations Unit

7. The Nature of Innovation
Incremental Innovation
Radical Innovation
LEVEL of INNOVATION
Far from
existing
practices
Near to
existing
practices
David Hargreaves (2003)

8. Next Practice Innovation Model
STIMULATING INCUBATING ACCELERATING
Analyse need
Scan the horizon
Seek innovators
Generate creative
options
Support the
leadership of change
Broker relationships
and alliances
Create communities
of practice
Utilise
knowledge
management
techniques
Synthesise
evaluation &
research
Accelerate
diffusion
with system
agendas
Ideas for
Next
Practice
Field Trials
Models of
Next
Practice in
Action
System-level
reflection &
intervention
Local level
action
System
learning
Modified from Innovation Unit (UK)

9. Focus on:
 Developing a learning orientation within
teaching as a profession and across
education systems;
 Building teacher capacity to problem
identify, problem solve, analyse and
research from within the context of their
classrooms;
 Engaging teachers in school improvement
through a focus on developing and
innovating on good practice;

10. Knowledge Creation and Innovation in
Classroom
How can you use your expertise to contribute to the
outcomes desired for students and the teaching
profession?
Students do not learn much just sitting in classes
listening
to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments,
and
spitting out answers. They must talk about what they
are
learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences,
and apply
it to what they feel is important. They must make
what they
learn a part of themselves.
Nobel laureate economist Friedrich Hayek argues that
nearly every person has unique information that can be put
to
use only with his ‘active cooperation’

11. Convergence in Learning
Information
Technology
Assessment
Learners
Neuroscience
Diagnosis, Response and “Treatment”