I am so excited for Innovation Day! Our first planning day was extremely productive, and I'm really looking forward to seeing how the day turns out. Listening to the unique ideas of the 6 random students we used as our discussion test group got me even more encouraged about the day. I can't wait for students to take their own interests and ideas and run with them.

Video

I was so inspired by our meeting that I went home and ran 3 miles :) :) :)

Can we post our teacher video on the blog?

Our First Planning Day

I have never been part of a meeting that was as productive as our first for day of planning for Innovation Day.  I just feel so accomplished!  At the beginning of the day we had great ideas bouncing all around that conference room.  We had an enlightening discussion about what each of us would study on our own innovation day, everything from cake decorating, to trees, to bigfoot.  Bigfoot, really!  I love how other people think.  This discussion ultimately lead to a video of the discussion so we could model the brainstorming process for our students.  That in turn lead to a video of students doing the same thing. 
We were definitely feeding off each others' ideas and it was brilliant!