Deep Dive: Innovation as Adoption and Emergence: Bringing New Practices to Life
Independent schools are at a pivotal moment - balancing deep traditions with regular calls to innovate in the classroom and in service delivery. When people learn to notice what is forming on the margins — newly formed ideas that don’t yet fit but demand attention — what we imagine can be realized. Innovation is both an intentional practice and accidental discovery.
Being an innovator starts with showing up with curiosity and paying attention to the world around us. Innovation is possible when communities adopt new social practices that begin as experiments and mature through collective adoption. Drawing on frameworks from Clay Christensen, Fernando Flores and Peter Denning, we’ll explore how independent schools can move from inspiring ideas to embedding behaviors that strengthen enrollment strategy, operational sustainability and the student experience.
In this interactive session, participants will utilize our five innovative practices that foster new approaches that you can bring back to your teams and colleagues.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn to deepen their appreciation for innovation as a process of emergence and adoption — and how awareness evolves into community practice.
Participants will explore the five innovative practices — observing, visioning, offering, anchoring and embodying — and how they create conditions for sustainable change.
Participants will identify ways to cultivate new social practices within their school that build trust, align with mission and strengthen institutional resilience.