{"id":86177,"date":"2023-03-18T14:25:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T18:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=86177"},"modified":"2023-03-18T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T18:31:00","slug":"reflections-on-policy-by-waivers-wont-boost-school-innovation-horn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/03\/18\/reflections-on-policy-by-waivers-wont-boost-school-innovation-horn\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on “Policy by Waivers Won\u2019t Boost School Innovation” [Horn]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Policy by Waivers Won\u2019t Boost School Innovation<\/strong><\/a> — by Michael B. Horn
\n“Permissionless” beats having to ask for an okay<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

In recent conversations, educators and state policymakers have expressed shock to me that district schools aren\u2019t innovating more. With microschools growing and test scores floundering, why aren\u2019t districts seeking permission to reinvent themselves?<\/p>\n

As evidence of the opportunities to innovate, many bureaucrats and think tanks point to the vast number of waivers that states offer. The opportunities to move beyond traditional structures and processes do exist, the argument goes.<\/p>\n

Yet waivers help far less than most policymakers believe. Until regulators create frameworks where innovation in pursuit of student outcomes is the default and doesn\u2019t require permission, don\u2019t expect a sea change.<\/p>\n

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Research shows the only way an organization can truly reinvent itself is to launch a separate organization that has the autonomy to rethink its value proposition, resources, processes, and financial formula.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Below is a graphic I created a while back, but with traditional institutions of higher education in mind.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Policy by Waivers Won\u2019t Boost School Innovation — by Michael B. Horn “Permissionless” beats having to ask for an okay Excerpt: In recent conversations, educators and state policymakers have expressed shock to me that district schools aren\u2019t innovating more. With microschools growing and test scores floundering, why aren\u2019t districts seeking permission to reinvent themselves? As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,72,343,347,419,180,46,74,102,7,838,285,436,480,310,20,89,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-daniel-s-christian","category-education","category-education-reform","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-k-12-related","category-leadership","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-legislation-legislatures","category-reinvent","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-strategy","category-teachers","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86180,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86177\/revisions\/86180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}