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Stories of principled innovations
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Unexpected challenges can become opportunities for innovation if we remain responsive to those situations and ready to change our methods to fit the needs.
Enacting systems thinking to address the needs of an increasingly specialized society, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College’s Next Education Workforce (NEW) initiative leverages teams of educators with distributed expertise to provide more personalized instruction.
Homelessness is a systemic problem without a single solution. For each person, a unique confluence of contextual factors combine to create the situations that lead to homelessness.
In both our learning environments and in our larger society, being deliberate and thoughtful about ensuring that we hear the perspectives of all community members—being inclusive by mining the depth of our diversity—is important for ensuring that we are dealing with the most pressing problems and designing the most effective solutions.
A wholehearted commitment to building educational solutions on the basis of a learning community’s fundamental values can lead to unique and creative designs.
In this video, Avondale Elementary School District (AESD) and Bayless Integrated Healthcare provide an innovative example of systems thinking which reduces student absenteeism through organizational collaboration.