Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The need for creative problem-solvers, innovative thinkers, and resilient individuals has never been more pronounced. By encouraging students to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test, Design Thinking fosters a holistic learning experience that places students at the core of the educational journey.

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

At first blush, their finding generates an obvious recommendation: let’s ensure more college students partake in more internships. The paper’s authors follow suit, imploring policymakers and colleges to “enable every college student to access at least one paid internship” as their top recommendation. That sounds great in theory.

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 8, 2024

This blog explores the implications of empathetic AI for businesses, healthcare, and society, highlighting the potential benefits and challenges of this groundbreaking technology. Emotional Intelligence Development: AI can help teach and develop emotional intelligence skills, preparing students for empathetic leadership and collaboration.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Their big appeal is that they promise to do a better job catering to students’ and families’ individual needs and interests. But right now, they only serve about 2% to 4% of US students. Well, let’s see what innovation theory has to say about this question. So, could microschools eventually become the new normal in schooling?

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Beyond the Obvious

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The first thing I did after the phone call to participate in the meeting about innovating education was post to my blog, Facebook, and Twitter. These posts generated the most feedback I’ve ever received on any topic. I got tons of suggestions, ranging from the provocative: To the amusing: I quickly realized that I needed […].

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This role could be taken on by a variety of systems, and one place we are seeing innovation is within schools and school districts. Herein, I highlight innovators taking an interdependent approach to improving children’s health, from which others can learn. For now, much can be learned from innovators taking the lead.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Career Innovation Through Continuous Learning Platforms. Digitization of learning platforms has brought innovation to education. Education is the core of all innovation and innovation in technology can also be brought through education. Education is the area where people can easily see a lot of innovation.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 23, 2022

the majority of you cited what we call “field tangibles” (22%), such as innovations at scale, examples of disruptive innovation in the real world, effective practices, and leadership profiles. When we asked respondents for “Any suggestions for how we can improve the relevance of our blogs or research for you?”

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 12, 2023

Indeed, in a moment of generic gloom about the future of higher education, online institutions have seen their enrollment grow , especially among traditional-aged students. In 2023, we are reaching the inflection point whereby the innovators are clearly seen as driving higher education’s future relevance, rather than the Ivy League. .

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Christensen Institute

AUGUST 2, 2022

King’s InterHigh has a current student population of over 4,000 (aged 7 to 19) located all over the world and accessing the online school across two time zones: GMT and GST. The innovation. Some students may live too far away from an IB World School or are restricted by classroom capacity or language offering.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As schools have reopened and the challenges facing children remain as glaring as ever, education philanthropy has a significant role to play in how schools innovate and tackle many of these issues. These grants help build a body of research about student learning and development. Student wellbeing and teachers as the locus of change.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If this is the case, although it’s better than the alternative—no teacher at all—it’s also a missed opportunity for deeper innovation. Among high schools that serve large percentages of African-American and Latino students, one in four don’t offer Algebra II, and one in three don’t offer chemistry.” She cited A.P.

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Students who are comfortable with the routines of conventional schools don’t like having the rules changed mid- game. State officials expect innovative schools to still follow the policies made for conventional schools. Parents feel uneasy when school doesn’t look like the schools they grew up with. And the list goes on.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 11, 2022

We have designed innovative reflection workshops and training to guide your participants through reflecting on themselves and their experience. and the reflection activities are designed for the specific audience of students or participants. Student engagement in reflection activities happens in three ways.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 16, 2024

But not disrupted—as the word is understood when we’re talking about the Theory of Disruptive Innovation that Christensen coined. Understanding a few aspects of Disruptive Innovation Theory will help illustrate why. Disruptive innovations initially expand the pie, in other words. They don’t steal market share.

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Christensen Institute

JULY 25, 2023

Key points: The metrics used to gauge the quality of conventional schooling can hinder the growth and innovation of microschools, learning centers, and homeschool co-ops. The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed a small but noteworthy student migration into the wild west of schooling. Microschools, learning pods, and more are changing the game.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding the “job” for which people hire a product or service helps innovators more accurately develop solutions that align with what people are already trying to accomplish. To uncover the struggling moments, as well as the progress someone seeks in their current situation, an innovator could conduct a Jobs analysis.

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Christensen Institute

MAY 10, 2022

It’s become common knowledge that students who’ve returned to in-person school this year in the wake of the pandemic are not only experiencing potential setbacks in their learning progress, but also severe mental health challenges. One critical, too-often untapped resource is students’ networks. We can’t improve what we don’t measure.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

I've been writing about innovation for close to 20 years. During most of that time, I've had the good fortune to lead innovation projects for clients as well. The work I get to do, and the material I see online and read in (yes, I still read paper magazines) has provided a lot of fodder for this blog over the years. Innovation.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

In my last post , I pointed out that microschools show some of the telltale signs of disruptive innovation. For all their benefits and promise, microschools fall short when it comes to meeting some of the needs and expectations of most K–12 students and families. In fact, this is what many microschools are already doing.

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This is the second in a two-part blog series about the role of innovation in improving Brazil’s education system. By contrast, pull strategies are originated by people on the ground–often innovators–who are responding to the struggles of everyday people experiencing specific struggles. The series is funded in part by Mind Lab.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 7, 2022

Welcome to our first “Innovation in action” piece, where we ask leaders in the postsecondary and K–12 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. Stay tuned!

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 8, 2022

In recent years, postsecondary institutions have started to ramp up their efforts to recruit and support returning adult students. That’s when colleges fail to accept credits in transfer from institutions that a student may have attended previously. On average, undergrad transfer students forfeit 40% of their prior credits.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Here’s how education historians David Tyack and Larry Cuban described Parkhurst’s model: “Central to Parkhurst’s reforms were monthly contracts that teachers negotiated with students. These laid out both the minimum tasks the students had to complete and additional choices if students wanted to go beyond the basic content and skills.

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Christensen Institute

APRIL 28, 2022

Positive relationships are a proven lever to boost troubling attendance rates, to mitigate the effects of trauma, and to motivate students in their coursework. In fact, only about 15% of students’ time is actually spent in school. Relationship mapping can help schools tap into their students’ broader networks.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

How do you talk to students about social capital? If you want students to deepen and expand their networks, what messages and experiences increase the likelihood that they’ll feel confident and inspired to do so? Some recent research suggests that students prefer the term “connections” to “networks” or “social capital.”

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As members of the media have bemoaned the tragic results of students on the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—also known as the nation’s report card—many have been all too willing to jump into the game of who is responsible. Their time-based nature means that they were, in fact, built to embed failure for the majority.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Where I’ve merely dabbled, he’s become steeped in the cutting-edge affordances of new tools, and the muddy waters of regulating a space where private innovation has quickly outpaced public discourse about guardrails. During the planning phase, many site teams were unsure how to accurately measure students’ social capital.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2023

We also partnered with AIR to conduct a developmental evaluation , analyzing student and staff data on what tools, resources, and supports could yield successful implementation at scale. Although I’ve spent years endeavoring to document the work and voices of early innovators, this project was exciting in its scale and scope.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 30, 2023

Job #2: Help me engage and challenge more of my students in a way that’s manageable. Teachers with this Job were happy overall with the teaching and learning in their classrooms, but wanted practical strategies for reaching a few students who were slipping through the cracks.

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IdeaSpies

AUGUST 19, 2019

Sharing innovation to inspire action. INNOVATION BLOG. Search for: Clever Ideas , Innovation Blog. There are more than one million students enrolled in Australian Universities. The majority of these are undergraduate students chasing the dream of a better life. Idea of the Week. Idea Spies.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Design thinking is a unique learning and problem solving mindset that we highly recommend to innovation-minded organizations and businesses. One such place is the education sector , where colleges, high schools, and K-12 schools have begun adapting the mindset to improve the educational experiences of their students.

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Christensen Institute

JANUARY 10, 2023

While barely a blimp on the global scale, it could impact learning trajectories for millions of American students and have a significant impact on the conventional model of schooling. As their name suggests, microschools, which serve K-12 students, are very small schools that typically serve 10 to 15 students, but sometimes as many as 150.

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Christensen Institute

JUNE 9, 2022

In a small town, 19 students and 2 teachers were massacred in their classroom just days before summer vacation. But from what I’ve seen visiting innovative schools and classrooms and talking with their students, teachers, and leaders, I wonder if at least one essential part of the solution is a fundamental change in how we do schooling.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 20, 2022

We led co-design projects in which students collaborated with designers to bring products to market. Although we collaborated with hundreds of students from public and independent schools, our business model did not pan out and hence projects have ceased. Eventually, this morphed into Tools At Schools , which lasted about 3 years.

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Christensen Institute

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The underlying instructional models of many weren’t all that innovative, nor did they have a clear and enduring competitive advantage. And, interestingly, a resurgence has occurred among incumbent, traditional competitors who have learned how to operate direct to consumer themselves.” The bootcamp industry exhibited the same pattern.

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Christensen Institute

MAY 31, 2022

Education wonks in Washington have once again worked themselves in a tizzy trying to micromanage how colleges and universities serve students. By making the outcomes from all higher education programs far clearer so that students can make more informed decisions about where to enroll that best meets their needs. Click To Tweet.

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