“Over the past 20 years of my career in learning reform, I feel like the overarching education community has consistently communicated the same two messages: 1. The system isn’t working and 2. Everything has to stay the same for it to work. Hmmm. This presents a particular challenge for organizations seeking to partner with schools, because it effectively requires us to create what I am going to call “palatable disruption.” That is a product or service that can effectively transform without unsettling or creating too much friction in the system. Palatable disruption is particularly critical when you take into consideration the findings from EIA and Digital Promise’s Ed-Tech Purchasing report, that education leaders decide what to buy primarily based on referrals. That means your education partners need to enjoy your particular brand of disruption even before they see the outcomes so they can recommend it to their peers. That is the key to quickly ‘cresting the wave of early adopters’1 and breaching the mass market. Not always so easy if your goal, as is ours, is to truly move the needle in teaching and learning.”
This is a very informative quote from the article describing the reality of the Education Transformation.
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