Creating Student Innovators & Developing Innovation Teams

1. CreatingStudentInnovators&DevelopingInnovationTeams Jennifer L. Stotts, Ed.D.

2. Introductions • Name • Short Professional History • 1 Interesting Fact • Take away from this session?

3. T-STEM Academy Design Blueprint Blueprint Continuum 1 - Mission Driven Leadership 6 - Strategic Alliances 7 – Academy Advancement & Sustainability 2 – T-STEM Culture 3 - Student Outreach, Recruitment & Retention 4 - Teacher Selection, Development & Retention 5 - Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment

4. Knows & Needs to Knows

5. Agree / DisagreeWhy / Why Not Education Quote Game

6. Agree / DisagreeWhy / Why Not The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

7. Agree / DisagreeWhy / Why Not Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

8. Agree / DisagreeWhy / Why Not It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

9. Agree / DisagreeWhy / Why Not Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

10. Agree / DisagreeWhy / Why Not The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive, and discoverers.

11. Agree / DisagreeWhy / Why Not We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

12. Reflection 1. Inventions in Your Lifetime

13. INVENTIONS • 1 min List inventions in your life-time • 3 min Share out

14. INVENTIONS Carl De Smet, Self-Assembling Furniture

15. Creativity Innovation Accountability Creativity, Innovation, Divergent & Convergent Thinking

26. Creativity Test • Alternative Uses • Incomplete Figure • Riddles • Remote Associates • The Candle Problem Falling, Actor, Dust Time, Hair, Stretch Manners, Round, Tennis Ache, Hunter, Cabbage A man has married 20 women in a small town. All of the women are still alive and none of them are divorced. The man has broken no laws. Who is the man?

27. The Candle Problem Affix the lit candle to the wall so that it will not drip wax onto the table below.

28. “We are educating people out of their creativity.” Sir Ken Robinson Do You Think You are Creative? • 2nd Graders • 5th Graders • Seniors in HS 5,000 Adults in US, UK, DE, Japan • 70% Feel that Education Stifles Creativity • 82% Feel urgency & concern that they are not living up to Creativity Potential 95% 50% 5%

29. Reflection 2. Innovations &Creativity in Your Classroom/School

30. The Child-Driven Education

31. Innovation Process • IDEO’s 7 rules for Brainstorming • Lafley & Charan’s 10 rules for Effective Brainstorming • Toyota’s 3 Innovation Principles • Toyota’s 10 Step Innovation Process • Kimmelman’s (author) 7 Step Innovation Process

32. IDEO Innovation

33. Innovation Team10 Faces of Innovation

34. Educational Innovations

35. Curriculum & Instruction

36. Capstones & Internships Jack Andraka 15 yr old freshman

37. Leadership Teams IDEO Innovation Methodology

38. Educational Challenges

39. IDEO Innovation Reflection

40. So-What The Difference Maker

41. A child miseducated is a child lost. John F. Kennedy

42. Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself – Chinese Proverb Expect – Motivate - Support