Innovation Configurations

Innovation Configurations are models created as a method of coming to common understandings of a change or implementation. An IC Map is a tool used to create a vision and concrete understanding of what something looks like in practice.

The primary reason schools are not able to fully realize the benefits professional development has on student learning is because there is a lack of shared vision for what the change can bring. Individual visions inspire individuals. Therefore, they are nothing more than dreams for what could be, manifested only in the minds of those who possess them. Because we operate in an educational system that lacks time and opportunity for collaboration and shared networking, educators are placed into positions everyday that force them to balance their own dreams and visions for student success, with grounding principles and standards of achievement provided to them by outside entities who claim to know best about how to teach THEIR students.

It is my belief that a shared vision for student success must have multiple pathways that allow for individual buy-in and shared ownership for what drives the profession of teaching and the business of learning.