How to Take Risks in a System Not Built For It (Learning From Elon Musk)
While John Spencer and I were developing the LAUNCH Cycle, we came up with a few areas that were likely stumbling blocks in the creative (design-think...
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I'm A.J. Juliani. As a father of four crazy kids, author, and a public school teacher turned Director of Innovation I'm sharing strategies, resources, interviews, rants, and practical ways to innovate right now. We look at all the innovative solutions you wish they taught you in grad school, and how to bring back creativity into our schools today (oh, and we definitely have fun while doing it!).
How to ACTUALLY Do Project Based Learning
An Interview with Ross Cooper and Erin Murphy of Hacking Project Based Learning. We talk about the HOW, not just the WHY of PBL.
Learning From One of the Most Innovative Schools in the Country
I had the chance a while back to interview Bo Adams from Mount Vernon Presbyterian School. Bo is the Chief Learning and Innovation Officer at MVPS an...
10 Practical Ways to Innovate in Any Classroom
I received a number of emails and questions about what types of “innovative work” I’ve seen in my role as a teacher, administrator, and speaker aroun...
Are we preparing students to be Chefs or Cooks?
Usually, when I write a blog post it is because I want to dig deeper into a topic and explore its merit. The post then becomes my way of explaining to...
Starting a Student Innovation Lab (How We Did It At My School)
DT Phase Activity Empathy/ Look and Learn Visit #1: The Science Behind our Brains and What People Care About. Team-Building Activity: Escape the Room...
Who Decides What is Innovative?
I was talking with a teacher in my school district yesterday who said, “I just don’t know if we should try this again in class. It seems like lots of ...