An Innovation Roadmap: Criteria for Innovative Schools in the 21st Century

An Innovation Roadmap: Criteria for Innovative Schools in the 21st Century - "Twenty-First Century Schools are first and foremost effective organizations. They are schools where innovation and continuous improvement are core values. Twenty-first century schools have strong leaders who create learning environments where the best educators want to stay. And they are schools that use metrics because they know what gets measured gets done. However, what differentiates these schools is an urgency to prepare students for 21st century professions. They understand that our current assessment systems are critical but insufficient; and that in many cases are measuring skills that are becoming rapidly obsolete. The jobs of the future will be complex, require innovative and creative thinking. Jobs that are not, will be done by a computer."

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