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Innovation in action: Creating a new vision of school that prepares students to live

Christensen Institute

This is our second “Innovation in action” piece (find the first piece here ), where we ask leaders in the postsecondary and K12 space to discuss what innovation looks like within their community, institution, or school; why they believe it has the potential to help students; and tips for successful implementation or scale.

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Can Team Teaching Break the Constraints of Conventional Schooling?

Christensen Institute

To make team teaching viable, we need innovations that can dissolve these practical constraints and facilitate efficient and sustainable collaboration within existing cost structures. Teacher burnout is a real and growing challenge for US K12 schools. So, why hasn’t such a promising practice truly taken flight?

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Why ‘system transformation’ is likely a pipe dream

Christensen Institute

I can’t count the number of times people at an education conference have approached me and said something to the effect of, “But how do we transform the education system?” or “We need to focus on system transformation” or “How do we scale system transformation?” There are many reasons for my reaction.

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Innovation in action: Taking lessons, programs, and assessments online

Christensen Institute

As the pandemic accelerated growth in the online education space, major accrediting organizations and exam boards turned their attention to online learning and to experienced online schools, like King’s InterHigh , to source expertise and partnership. Accreditations by EdExcel, Pearson, and Cambridge International soon followed.

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Education reform is a cul-du-sac. It’s time to build new roads to new destinations. 

Christensen Institute

Is it possible to transform existing K12 schools? Can innovative, future-ready models of schooling be built from the schools that are common across the education landscape today? The new value networks that we need to support learner-centered education have a different set of priorities than those of conventional schools.

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