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Creating a Culture That Fosters Creativity and Innovation School-Wide

Troy Cockrum

Director of Innovative Teaching

Little Flower Catholic School, Indianapolis

troy-cockrum.com/innovation

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Let students push the buttons that adults won’t.

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“The model of product-oriented learning makes the creation of products the center of the learning experience.”

Yong Zhao, World Class Learners

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How we define failure and how we recover

shows us it isn’t that bad.

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“You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.”

Jean Piaget

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“Real Artists ship.”

Steve Jobs

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Once we start to do schooling differently, we’ll start to get something different.

Seth Godin, “Stop Stealing Dreams”

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“There is a distinction to be made between 'personalized learning' and 'personal' learning.

In the former, content is created and then adapted to the individual learner, while in the latter, content is selected and created by the learner.”

Stephen Downes

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“Innovators must have a bias toward action and experimentation.”

Tony Wagner, Creating Innovators

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“The job is what you do when you are told what to do. Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it.”

Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are you Indespensible?

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“For schools, innovation is about taking different things that already exist and piecing them together and making them work in a profoundly different way that makes teaching and learning better.”

Grant Lichtman, #EdJourney

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  • Anything by Seth Godin
    • Linchpin, “Stop Stealing Dreams” TedTalk
  • #EdJourney by Grant Lichtman
  • Creating Innovators by Tony Wagner
  • World Class Learners by Yong Zhao
  • Stephen Downes blog: downes.ca

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Creating a Culture That Fosters Creativity and Innovation School-Wide

Troy Cockrum

Director of Innovative Teaching

Little Flower Catholic School, Indianapolis

troy-cockrum.com/innovation