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School Innovation

Matt Barnes

There are two ways to innovate in school: Top-Down or Bottom-Up.


Bottom-Up is Albert Einstein working as a patent clerk while innovating in physics.


Bottom-Up is an entrepreneur innovating around a vexing problem.


*Bottom-Up is distributed.

*Bottom-Up is decentralized.

*Bottom-Up is Netflix.


Top-Down is what large companies, governments, and school districts do. They issue policies and mandates for others to follow.


*Top-Down is standardized.

*Top-Down is compliance-driven.

*Top-Down is Blockbuster Video.


There is a desperate need to innovate in school, and every parent must decide which approach they will follow.


1. Choose Bottom-Up, and you throw out the "old-school playbook." You ignore grades and radically focus on learning and student engagement.


2. Choose Top-Down, and you do what everyone else does: Yell at your kids to do their homework, chastise grades below a "B", require your kids to conform to school rules, and set aside funds for therapy.


The choice is yours.

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