What is innovation?
"innovation is nurturing the energy, idealism, and enthusiasm found within our schools to foster creativity and independence in our students."

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Was Michelle Rhee right when she said, during NAIS 2009, that independent schools have a responsibility to innovate?


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The Educators' Field Guide to
Unleashing the Innovators
(within)
Jason Ramsden
Sarah Hanawald
Ravenscroft School
Greensboro Day School
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"The problem is that most schools don’t like great teachers. They’re organized to stamp them out, bore them, bureaucratize them, and make them average."  -Seth Godin
NAIS: "A public purpose to private education"
"Find smart, happy people." 
P. Bassett
innovators are just born that way
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