What Next?

Educational Innovation and Philadelphia's School of the Future

By: Frederick M. Hess (Editor), Mary Cullinane (Editor)

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Paperback | 28 February 2010

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When the school district of Philadelphia teamed up with the Microsoft Corporation in 2006 to redesign the American high school, the result was the School of the Future, hailed by National Public Radio as “the next big thing,” by Education Week as “a new high-tech school [that is] strutting its stuff,” and by NBC News as “next-generation education.” While technology was a crucial element at the School of the Future, the redesign sought fundamentally to rethink the models for teaching and learning. Their trademark framework for decision making, the “6Is”—introspection, investigation, inclusion, innovation, implementation, and, again, introspection—is now being used by organizations in more than fifteen countries.

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I have little doubt that innovations technological and otherwise will transform schools and education in coming years. This volume provides important insights into the challenges of provoking such change at an accelerated pace. Mitchell D. Chester, Massachusetts Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education
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This volume thoroughly documents the evolution of an important model for educational improvement. Beyond insights about school design in an era of sophisticated technology, it delineates a process for developing and refining innovations. Its ideas will prove useful for teachers, administrators, parents, school board members, the business sector, and policy makers. Christopher Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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