Bringing Innovation to School: Empowering Students to Thrive in a Changing World
Suzie Boss has wed the work of schools to the work of prominent innovators, proving that these worlds are not far apart at all. . . .Bringing Innovation to Schoolis filled with practical, easy-to-follow ways to change teacher and school practice. We are lucky. Suzie has given us both a call for change and a blueprint for doing so. --From the foreword by Chris LehmannIf you read only one book on innovation in education, readBringing Innovation to School. Suzie Boss goes directly to the heart of why we need innovation in our schools, and she describes practical, realistic solutions to get there. This book will be extremely useful to all people who seek to improve education including teacher leaders, administrators, parents, and policy makers. --Cindy Johanson, Executive Director, The George Lucas Educational Foundation, publisher ofEdutopiaBringing Innovation to Schoolmakes a powerful case that innovation can be--make that must be--taught and provides engaging examples of how real educators are doing this today. Every parent, teacher, and administrator should read this book and ask themselves whether their schools are graduating innovators. --John R. Mergendoller, Executive Director, Buck Institute for Education