Presentation at SDCUE conferene 2015 on the skills and strategies needed to create a culture of innovation in your classroom, school, or district.

1. Innovation

2. Innovation
Organizational
Development

3. Innovation
Organizational Development
Learning

6. Camarena Elementary

20. Why?

21. What if?

22. How?

23. Why? Questioning
What if?
Observation
Association
How?
Networking
Experimenting

24. A M O R E B E A U T I F U L
Q U E S T I O N

26. “How do we create a
school where everyone
takes ownership of
their own learning.”

27. Why? Questioning

29. If they can put a man
on the moon, why
can’t they make a
better foot?

31. rightquestion.org

32. Why do we have staff
meetings?

33. Why do we have people line
up for registration?

34. What are your questions?

35. 1. Ask Questions until you
arrive at a worthy pursuit.

36. What if?
Observation
Association

37. O B S E R VAT I O N

38. Simple
Observation

42. –yogi berra
“You can observe a lot
through watching.”

43. What did
you notice?
What do
you
wonder?

44. think like a
traveler
Observe processes and
services through the
eyes of the customer.
2. Think Like a Traveler

46. A S S O C I AT I O N

53. Robert Plath 1987

54. Palestine,1153

56. The world needs your
innovation

57. 3. Make connections
between otherwise
unrelated concepts.

58. How?
Networking
Experimenting

59. N E T W O R K I N G

60. Chance favors the connected mind - Steve Johnson

65. –Steve johnson
“Share ideas to make
them better.”

66. –Singapore Education
“Give away all your
ideas so you can come
up with new ones.”

68. 4. Share your ideas and
connect with experts inside
and outside education.

69. E X P E R I M E N T I N G

70. -David Kelly
“Treat life as an
experiment.”

71. WD-40

72. 5128
Failures

74. “What is your
response to
failure?”

75. I have not failed.
I’ve just found
10,000 ways that
don’t work.
Thomas Edison

76. –Warren Berger
“The trick is to go from one
failure to another without the
loss of enthusiasm.”

77. Combo Classes

78. How can I put this idea into
action?

79. 5. Take action quickly, learn
from failure, make it better.