1. Innovative Schools toolkit
Workshop 6i-4 – Innovation
Project creation and planning

2. Objective Suggested Approach
Workshop 4 overview
Objective
Suggested Approach
Create innovation teams which have…
A common purpose
A built in self review mechanism
Feedback from learners
Four innovative ideas
Position one of the ‘Learner Outcomes’ posters in each corner of the room and invite delegates to choose the one they would most like to contribute towards.
Ask individuals to address groups by each poster and describe what they would like to be involved in so that groups can form.
Groups return to tables and with large poster paper work through the steps of forming an innovation team.
To set the first team task and establish working practices
Teams prepare a short presentation regarding how they will operate..
To share practice ideas
Teams will give their brief presentations to the whole group so there is shared awareness and produce their key messages for wider stakeholder distribution.

3. Your innovation teams
Choose one of the three ‘Student Outcomes’ posters and debate the ideas for projects
Look at the BECTA self review framework to consider what strands of work need to be considered
Your team of four – Decide on four related project ideas you will pursue
Look at all the ‘BEST’ outcomes and see how your projects can maximise coverage
How will you review each others progress? How will you know who has been successful and who needs support?

4. Decide on a common purpose, based on student outcomes
Creating your innovation team – step 1
Decide on a common purpose, based on student outcomes
How?
look at the three posters for ‘student outcomes’ and decide which you personally would like to work on best.
Share ideas with others to find some common ground

5. Creating your innovation team – step 2
Agree the members of your team Four is the ideal structure, here are some variations
Teacher 1
Teacher 2
Teacher 3
Teacher 4
Teacher 1
Teacher 2
Assistant 1
Assistant 2
Teacher 1
Teacher 2
Learner 1
Learner 2
Teacher 1
Teacher 2
Teacher 3
Teacher 4
Teacher of subject 1
Teacher of subject 2
Teacher of subject 3
Teacher of subject 4

6. Creating your innovation team – step 3
Agree your review method Effective teams have to stay focussed on learning and on the longer term objectives. Here are three suggestions for how to ensure this happens. These models can be combined or others used.
Model 1: Co-developed
Model 2: Book club
Model 2: Hot seat
Team agrees this week’s focus
One team member is focussed on once each four weeks
Learners in the team who experience the activities conduct evaluations and feed these back to the group
Next Week’s outcome agreed
Whole team will try the same development with their groups
Whole team fire questions to offer challenge and ideas
Group evaluation and next focus

7. Specific about what you will Measure to prove you have
Creating your innovation team – step 4
Making sure you are SMART Your whole team has a common purpose but you need to each be
Specific about what you will
Measure to prove you have
Achieved improvements. So what is a
Realistic expectation for one year’s
Time from now?

8. Sustainability: Making sure it scales
Creating your innovation team – step 5
Sustainability: Making sure it scales
Stage 1: Co-development project (Pilot1)
Stage 2: Consultative project (Pilot2)
Stage 3: Small scale implementation
Stage 4: Large scale implementation - policy
Hundreds of interesting projects happen across the world every year but few survive and grow. From day one you must think how you will scale this idea if you are successful.
Could another team use your ideas next year?
Could another school use them to progress as you have?

9. Creating your innovation team – step 6
Managing Risk
You are reaching the Good phase. Most things are in place. Results begin to plateau. Wide Support and good will
People have understood the vision and it is widely shared – initiatives have kicked in and are achieving change
When you took
over the leadership
Identify new project while energy is high. Innovation and Risk Taking referring to the new vision for direction.Stop doing some things to make space for the new – don’t be afraid to let go.
Success
You crack eggs! Your initiatives have yet to bear fruit. People complain it was better before – and it was!
Time

10. Bringing it all together
Creating your innovation team – step 7
Bringing it all together
Who is in your team?
What is your common purpose?
How often will you meet?
How will you review progress and stay focussed?
How will you obtain student feedback?
How is your project SMART?
Would your project scale to whole school?
What will get worse and what must be abandoned?

11. Team task
Prepare a presentation that will provide other groups with an overview of what your team are planning
Add your ideas to the correct Learner Outcomes Poster

12. Innovation team 1 Project #1
Ideas sorter for learner vision statement 1
Stick here – any ideas that are already happening or have already been replaced with better ideas
Stick here - any ideas that will help take the vision forward and could be achieved by most teachers in 2 years
Stick here - any ideas that definitely would move this vision statement forward but will take more than 4 years to put in place across the whole school
Innovation team 1 Project #1
Put your
first BEST
learner
outcome
here 1 2 3 4
Our school now
4 years time

13. Objective Suggested Approach
Workshop 4 overview
Objective
Suggested Approach
Create innovation teams which have…
A common purpose
A built in self review mechanism
Feedback from learners
Four innovative ideas
Position one of the ‘Learner Outcomes’ posters in each corner of the room and invite delegates to choose the one they would most like to contribute towards.
Ask individuals to address groups by each poster and describe what they would like to be involved in so that groups can form.
Groups return to tables and with large poster paper work through the steps of forming an innovation team.
To set the first team task and establish working practices
Teams prepare a short presentation regarding how they will operate..
To share practice ideas
Teams will give their brief presentations to the whole group so there is shared awareness and produce their key messages for wider stakeholder distribution.

14. Close
Formal close and thankyou

15. Credits
Original content by Dan Buckley through a collaboration between Microsoft, Imagine Education, Education Impact and Cambridge Education.