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Hess, Frederick M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
Greenfield is a term for an area where there are unobstructed, wide-open opportunities to invent or build. Greenfield schooling presumes that the greatest challenge to improving teaching and learning is the bureaucratic, rule-driven education system and that it is important to create an environment in which innovation can flourish.
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Improvement, Educational Environment, Educational Innovation
Zhao, Yong – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
Why didn't China celebrate its stunning PISA performance? Why does Singapore blame its education for its inability to cultivate creative and entrepreneurial talents? Why don't the world's top scorers in international tests have the same level of entrepreneurial activities and capabilities? This essay uncovers the inconsistency between academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Innovation, Creativity, Failure
Levine, Arthur – Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
Economic, technological, and demographic developments have changed our world, and schools of education need to change to meet the new challenges. To help them meet these changes, the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship was designed to attract high-ability individuals to teaching careers in math and science in high-need urban and rural schools and,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Fellowships, Change Strategies
Gordon, Edward E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2009
Tutoring has become a familiar tool that schools use to reinforce classroom teaching and improve student achievement. That's especially been the case because of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and its provisions for supplemental education. Educators faced with developing or supporting tutoring services for students should consider five practical…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Instructional Improvement, Instructional Innovation, Educational Strategies
Green, Daniel G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
Strapped for cash, a Massachusetts high school creates its own venture capital fund to incentivize teachers to create programs that improve student learning. The result has been higher test scores and higher job satisfaction. One important program is credited with helping close the achievement gap at the school, while others have helped ambitious…
Descriptors: High Schools, Financial Needs, Fund Raising, School Business Relationship
Bryk, Anthony S. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2009
We must reengineer both how we carry out educational R&D and the schools in which this work occurs if we want to achieve more productive ends. Education needs a Design, Educational Engineering, and Development infrastructure, which includes a rapid prototyping process by which researchers and practitioners co-develop innovations, try them in…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Educational Innovation, Instructional Design, Researchers
Mehta, Jal; Spillane, Jim – Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
Reformers hope that by unbundling schools--taking apart the current structures and routines and putting them together in new ways--we can create better schools. But there is no guarantee that it would improve schools in three areas that we know matter: coherence and infrastructure, the instructional core, and political accountability. However,…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Accountability
Oxley, Diana; Luers, Katie Whitney – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
After providing technical assistance to the federal Smaller Learning Community Program grantees, the authors developed five lessons for successful programs: 1) A strong vision of improved instruction needs to drive high school reorganization; 2) A strong vision of improved instruction focuses on strengthening the instructional core; 3)…
Descriptors: School Organization, Small Schools, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Berry, Barnett – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
In the future, teachers will become "teacherpreneurs," that is, teachers who develop their pedagogical talent, "sell" their expertise, and find innovative solutions to challenges facing their students. Unions will become professional guilds, and teachers will use new technologies to meet all their students' needs.
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Educational Innovation, Expertise, Teacher Effectiveness
Mangrum, Jennifer R. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
Developing systems and opportunities for effective dialogue is critical if schools wish to help teachers work collectively. One school used Socratic seminars, structured conversations about selected texts. These seminars helped teachers to build relationships, share practice, and change curriculum and policy. The seminars also were critical to…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Seminars, Educational Practices, Professional Development
Jukes, Ian; McCain, Ted; Crockett, Lee – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
Exponential change is making our education system obsolete. New inventions will replace not only textbooks, but everything we currently think of as school. Teachers will need to rethink their roles as advances in teaching machines allow lessons to be customized to every child wherever that child might be. What is taught also will change because…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Teacher Role, Educational Change, Learning Processes
Berkley, Tony – Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
In 2001, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation launched the SPARK initiative to improve early learning and transitions into elementary school for vulnerable children. Eight programs were funded, each of which anchored their work in their local communities by forming partnerships with parents, schools and a variety of local organizations. Seven of the eight…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Preschool Evaluation, Transitional Programs, Partnerships in Education
Deddeh, Heather; Main, Erin; Fulkerson, Sharon Ratzlaff – Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
A group of teachers at Clifford Smart Middle School in Michigan's Walled Lake Consolidated School District have broken free from traditional grading in order to embrace a more meaningful grading practice. Using standards-based grading practices, they believe their grading now accurately communicates to students and parents the student's mastery…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Grading, Academic Standards, Evaluation Methods
Finn, Chester E., Jr. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
It would be wrong for the United States to provide universal prekindergarten education for three reasons. First, the overwhelming majority of three- and four-year-olds already have access to various forms of preschool. Adding a publicly financed program would be costly and unnecessary. Second, a universal program still would not reach the neediest…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Compulsory Education, Equal Education, Public Education
Hill, Paul; Johnston, Mike – Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
New forms of schooling are emerging, driven by new technology, the recession, and public sector innovation, as well as the commitment to attain standards. Three of these new forms are virtual schooling, hybrid schools, and broker schools. While still fairly rare, these schools could become the norm if the regulatory and funding barriers to their…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Educational Development, State Regulation, Public Schools
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