Friday, 12 February 2010 09:36
DMC has long promoted strategic innovation as a means to pursue our three goals of increasing student achievement while improving operational efficiency and reducing or maintaining costs. Our recent Superintendents’ Strategy Summit on Innovation captured this approach and highlighted several ways that districts such as Houston ISD and Aurora Public Schools in Colorado were putting this into practice. As we look forward to the Investing in Innovation (i3) grant process slated to begin in the next few months, we are excited to know that innovation will continue to be in the spotlight for some time.
Our seventh Superintendent Strategy Summit: Innovation in Education: Developing and Scaling Effective Strategies was held in New York City on January 20-22, 2009. The key takeaway was that innovation is a process that can be managed and not an innate skill. The meeting offered an opportunity for some of the country’s leading superintendents to participate in an intimate, structured dialogue and share best practices that can address the challenges of today and tomorrow.
