Part III – Innovate Inside the Box

Chapter 14: You Are the Core

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How would people feel if they got to see the beautiful stories about your classroom and what you do with your learners every single day? In this final chapter, we hope that you take the time to think about “your compelling reason.”

Further Viewing

Questions for Discussion

What has challenged you?
What has been reaffirmed?
What will you do moving forward?

Take some time to reflect, either privately or publicly, on these questions. The most important question of these three is the last. We would love to hear what you will do to move to action.

Chapter 13: Lead from Where You Are

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Change can be hard and we have to make the choice to change. In this chapter, you will learn more about the importance of moving forward and how building relationships and understanding the journey ahead will help us as we move forward.

Questions for Discussion

Identify one moment that you significantly changed your direction, personally or professionally. What happened and what change did you make because of it? Take the time to reflect and consider sharing it with colleagues.
What is the “story” of your classroom, school, or organization? What is the one you can tell, and what is the one you want to tell?
What are some of the “traditional” barriers to innovation in education, and how can you leverage them to create new and better opportunities for the learners you serve?

Part III: Taking Ownership Over the Process of Learning

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Your story matters, not just to you, but to your entire learning network! While this book works to connect all of the core ideas of an innovator’s mindset to UDL, we hope that you see that everything is connected to the relationships we build and foster. The final two chapters are about you and what you will choose to do with the information you have gained from Innovate Inside the Box. As you read these last two chapters, we encourage you to keep the following in mind:

What influence do you have on yourself?
What influence do you have on others?
Working in education is difficult and you are valued for doing it
You are an important part of this process

In the introduction to section three, we offer the image to the right as a transition because expert learning builds upon equity and promotes empowerment. This visual shows just that, for a more in-depth explanation of the image, see this link.