Iterate: The secret to innovation in schools
- - Think in spirals and cycles: approach design iteratively rather than making linear plans.
- - Act in short design sprints: school unfolds in long time stretches - semester-long courses, 9-month academic years, 4-year schools, and 13-year programs. Contemporary design often works in much shorter sprints of 2-3 weeks, and schools can benefit from shifting to embrace these agile approaches.
- - Improve in community - the best design is inclusive.
Schedule Information:
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Session Description
For 20 years, Justin Reich has worked in schools on all kinds of projects: transforming curriculum, integrating technology, re-engaging students, and making school meaningful and relevant to young people and families. Across these experiences, every successful school improvement effort has one thing in common: they all improve one step at a time. Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools is a playbook for making big, joyful changes in schools out of small, manageable steps. Iterate reflects insights about design, collaboration, and improvement from educators around the world, and from colleagues at MIT. For learning science, new technologies, and innovative theories to make a difference in the world, they have to make their way into the hands of classroom educators. Iterate offers new ideas for improving learning in classrooms, schools, or wherever you work to make learning better.