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Matthew May, author of Elegant Solutions: Breakthrough Thinking The Toyota Way offers 10 practices that can drive the innovation necessary to discover elegant solutions. These 10 practices should be embedded into the work of schools, districts, leadership teams, professional learning communities, or professional networked learning collaboratives.

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The mantra should be, “No best, only better.” To innovate is to TRY to make things better than ever.

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A well-organized web-site linking Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space Technology, and World Cafe - and a combined process called Methods of Strategic Collaboration that uses the AI 4D framework and draws on the three approaches to fill in the processes.

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Sutton summarizes his thoughts about brainstorming and some "silly" research suggesting that individuals are more creative of new ideas than groups engaged in brainstorming. Links to a Sutton academic article, as well.

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Annual events "letting great people tell great stories" on innovation, thinking that pushes the boundaries. Lots of video-clips to be explored!

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Susan Leddick's home page; worked with W. Edwards Deming; developed Total Quality Transformation framework for AASA

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Home site; links to quality tools and resources

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Tools and guidance for School Improvement from this Michigan RESA Instructional Services group

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What a post! What a rich conversation through the comments. We could spend a year's worth of "instructional technology advisory council" and "curriculum council" meetings discussing the various rivers running through...

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10 Basic Quality Tools for the Classroom

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