Bringing Innovation to School: Empowering Students to Thrive in a Changing World

Are you preparing a new generation of innovators? Activate your students' creativity and problem-solving potential with breakthrough learning projects. Across all grades and content areas, student-driven, collaborative projects will teach students how to generate innovative ideas and then put them into action. You'll take learning to new heights and help students master core content.

Benefits:

• Learn why innovation is an essential skill for 21st century learners' success.
• Discover the diverse ways innovation can be implemented in the classroom.
• Explore innovative examples from outside education to stir creativity.
• Understand how innovation can coexist with standards-based instruction.
• Gain tips on how to incorporate unstructured time into the school day.

Contents:
Part I: Setting the Stage
Chapter 1: Coming to Terms With Innovation
Chapter 2: Seeing Educators as Innovators
Chapter 3: Growing a New Global Skill Set

Part II: Building the New Idea Factory
Chapter 4: Seeding Innovation
Chapter 5: Integrating Design Thinking Throughout the Curriculum
Chapter 6: Making Room for Thinkers
Chapter 7: Taking Advantage of Technology
Chapter 8: Gaming for Real Learning

Part III: Moving From Thinking to Doing
Chapter 9: Spreading Good Ideas
Chapter 10: Taking Action

Appendix A: Additional Resources
Appendix B: Innovation Rubric
Appendix C: Discussion Guide

Suzie Boss is a writer and consultant who focuses on the power of teaching and learning to empower others to improve their lives and transform their communities. She has developed programs for nonprofit organizations that teach youth and adults how to improve their communities with innovative, sustainable solutions. She has also introduced project-based learning (PBL) strategies to after-school providers to enrich the experiences of youth at risk.

She is a member of the National Faculty of the Buck Institute for Education, an international resource for best practices in PBL. She has also worked with educators online, facilitating webinars and extending professional development events, including a summer PBL Camp. In 2011, she spent several weeks delivering PBL workshops to teachers across India.

Suzie is coauthor of Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age. She is a regular contributor to Edutopia and the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and her work has appeared in a wide range of other publications, including Educational Leadership, Principal Leadership, The New York Times, Huffington Post, and Newsweek.

Suzie holds a BA with distinction in communications from Stanford University.