📚 Education Aug 24, 2026 · Nate McClennen

Beyond the Shiny Object: How to Assess Your System’s True Innovation Readiness

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Education’s challenges are not due to a lack of new ideas. Every veteran teacher knows the feeling when the next “shiny object” emerges and the school or district jumps on it. While these initiatives are almost always launched to improve student outcomes, they often end up in the alphabet soup of school change. Parallel to this are top-down mandates from the state or federal level that fail to recognize the context on the ground. The tension between centralization and decentralization is the hal

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