Teach and Learn » School http://johnfranke.edublogs.org Working to be a better learner to become a better educator Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:46:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Fast Schools http://johnfranke.edublogs.org/2008/03/11/fast-schools/ http://johnfranke.edublogs.org/2008/03/11/fast-schools/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:05:22 +0000 johnfranke http://johnfranke.edublogs.org/2008/03/11/fast-schools/ While traveling to Colorado for a workshop I picked up the latest copy of Fast Company. I was, and still am, filled with awe and curiosity from the Fast Company Fast 50.  I am sure that Fast Company only scraped the surface for innovative and growing companies and that it may have been virtually impossible to have a list larger than 50 without going absolutely overboard.

The businesses on this list demonstrate their commitment to looking towards the future, recognizing a need, and doing what it takes to address that need.

There is a lot to be said about the constant reassessment of what you do, a belief that what you do can be done better, and the tenacity to do it. Since reading this article, I have found myself looking for answers to a few questions:

What will it take for a school to make the Fast Company “Fast 50″ list?
Is this even the  list a school would want to be on?
What would a list of “Innovative Schools” look like?
What would the criteria for this list even be?

We have, what seems like, countless awards for “successful” schools.  What about innovative schools?  Schools who, to paraphrase Fast Company, are reinventing the rules of the change game that is today’s schooling?

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