Bringing Innovation to School: Empowering Students to Thrive in a Changing World, June/2012

Are you preparing a new generation of innovators? Activate your students' creativity and problem-solving potential with breakthrough learning projects. Across all grades and content areas, student-driven, collaborative projects will teach students how to generate innovative ideas and then put them into action. You’ll take learning to new heights and help students master core content.

Benefits:

1. Shows educators why innovation is an essential skill for 21st century learners' success
2. Demonstrates the diverse ways innovation can be implemented in the classroom
3. Provides innovative examples from outside education to stir creativity
4. Explains how innovation can coexist with standards-based instruction
5. Provides tips on how to incorporate unstructured time into the school day

About The Author:
Suzie Boss is a writer and consultant who focuses on the power of teaching and learning to empower others to improve their lives and transform their communities. She has developed programs for nonprofit organizations that teach youth and adults how to improve their communities with innovative, sustainable solutions. She has also introduced project-based learning (PBL) strategies to after-school providers to enrich the experiences of youth at risk.

She is a member of the National Faculty of the Buck Institute for Education, an international resource for best practices in PBL. She has also worked with educators online, facilitating webinars and extending professional development events, including a summer PBL Camp. In 2011, she spent several weeks delivering PBL workshops to teachers across India.

Suzie is coauthor of Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age. She is a regular contributor to Edutopia and the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and her work has appeared in a wide range of other publications, including Educational Leadership, Principal Leadership, The New York Times, Huffington Post, and Newsweek. She is a member of the national faculty of the Buck Institute for Education.

Suzie holds a BA with distinction in communications from Stanford University.