Inquiry-Driven Innovation - Paperback

by Liz Dawes-Duraisingh (Author)

Promote positive change and elevate teacher practice with this actionable framework for school-based innovation

Inquiry-Driven Innovation: A Practical Guide to Supporting School-Based Change addresses a pressing need for intentional and sustained innovation in education. It is both a practical guide for supporting school-based change and a handbook for effective professional development that empowers and re-energizes practitioners. Throughout this book, educators will find a wealth of examples from different school contexts and a rich array of research-based pedagogical tools and resources.

In recent years, educational innovation and school redesign have been the focus for many school boards and departments of education. However, current school-based innovation methods typically lack flexibility and intentionality. Inquiry-Driven Innovation offers an approach to innovation that recognizes local contexts, promotes listening across stakeholder groups, and suggests structures for ongoing and purpose-driven work.

• Discover an actionable framework for school-based innovation
• Learn from real-world case studies of educators developing innovation strategies in a variety of school contexts
• Explore an Innovation Toolkit filled with research-based pedagogical tools and resources for educators

In this book, you'll learn the five essential qualities of Inquiry-Driven Innovation: an ongoing process that empowers individuals and communities to pursue positive change that is both relevant and responsive to their contexts. Inquiry-Driven Innovation is purposeful and intentional; attentive to multiple perspectives; adapted to context; sustained and iterative; and structured and supported. Read this book to learn how you can implement evidence-based innovation strategies in your own community.

Front Jacket

A NEW, EVIDENCE-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR PROMOTING INNOVATION IN SCHOOLS AND CLASSROOM

Are you ready to infuse new life into your classroom, school, or educational community? Inquiry-Driven Innovation presents an actionable framework for fostering innovation that is effective and dynamic, following the latest findings from Project Zero, a research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

You'll access a flexible framework for promoting innovation in education, driven by educators inquiring about their own unique surroundings. Whether you aim to rethink current practice by bringing people together in new ways, reimagining the physical learning space, introducing novel curricula, or any other number of changes, this book shows why we need intentional and sustained innovation now more than ever and how to make it happen. It proposes an approach to innovation that holds meaning, purpose, and growth for the entire educational community. Read this book to learn how you can implement evidence-based innovation strategies in your own educational setting.

"Building on experience from around the world, Liz Dawes Duraisingh and Andrea Sachdeva show in insightful and practical ways how we can transform pedagogical paradigms to educate children for their future, rather than for our past."
--Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills, OECD

"If the need to be agile and creative on a personal level is not daunting enough, imagine trying to create a culture of innovation and iteration in a school. Often, it becomes the responsibility of a few or gets left to chance. This book offers proven strategies, inspiring case studies and simple frameworks that can intentionally foster a school-wide culture of innovation -- by design!"
--Kiran Bir Sethi, Founder, The Riverside School and Design for Change

"Using powerful arguments for openness to change and diversity of teamwork, this book shows how innovation is both totally necessary and perfectly possible. Clearly written, and attractively illustrated, it will engage would-be innovators everywhere."
--Andy Hargreaves, Research Professor, Boston College, Director of CHENINE (Change, Engagement & Innovation in Education), University of Ottawa, President & Co-Founder, ARC Education

Author Biography

LIZ DAWES DURAISINGH is a Principal Investigator at Project Zero and a Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She was formerly a high school teacher.

ANDREA ROSE SACHDEVA is a Senior Project Manager at Project Zero. Prior to her research career, Andrea worked in nonprofit educational organizations focused on innovation and the arts.