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 The Right to an Innovative Classroom  The Right to Innovative Education  The Right to Innovative Lifestyle

WHAT IS INNOVATION?IN THE CLASSROOM? IN EDUCATION? IN LEARNING? Innovation is the active application of unique, creative, and potentially original techniques, styles, problems, or any potential educational structure. Such a structure can be made of literally any-thing. The crux of innovation is stressing not necessarily new, though it often is, ideas, techniques, or practices, rather it is the willingness to accept the possibility of ridicule, failure, and even success. As Sir Robinson states above, humanity grows OUT of creativity, not INTO it. media type="custom" key="7710715" width="120" height="120" align="center"

Innovation at work in Lisa Delpit's: //Skin That We Speak//

//Carter decided to gamble that if he could help the kids connect with music, he could help them connect with writing. Carter chose...a song entitled, "Blue Interlude:The Bittersweet Saga of Sugar Cane and Sweetie Pie." He chose this song because on it Marsalis [Jazz artist] explains the way he uses melodies to reflect particular characters. During the first lesson carter played the CD and led the students in a discussion of what they thought the action was... 13 //

Problems of Innovation:

 Too often we see the "process" that Fishburne so succinctly summed up as the reality of innovation. Perhaps more often than the restraints of a society to comprehend and apply innovation is the unwillingness to //allow// innovation. Future teachers and students must //fight// for their right to innovation regardless of curricula, management, or governmental oversight.

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 ~Pilloton exhibits some utterly innovative, creative, and powerful examples of what the right kind of thinking and funding can do for a school.

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