For over 60 years, ISS has been dedicated to supplying international schools with everything they need to provide their students with a world-class education. Headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, ISS offers only the best in staff recruitment, job placement, school supplies and other services that help position your school for success.
Creating a culture in which innovation can spark
International Schools Services (ISS) has developed a strategic approach to sparking creativity and innovation across its schools. Using the framework below, ISS schools develop supportive cultures in which new ideas and practices flourish.
Creating a vision focuses on the compelling case for change in schools. With industry leaders removing degree requirements, colleges accepting students via portfolio and students pursuing their own entrepreneurial endeavours, schools need to reimagine what learning looks like in their respective contexts.
Enabling environments addresses the need for new types of learning spaces (both physical and digital) to support contemporary pedagogies. It also endorses the effective use of technology and establishment of robust infrastructure to support the learning process.
Activating communities values the de-privatisation of practice so that great teaching and learning permeates the classroom wall. Educator’s are not only given the agency to explore new ideas and initiatives but also platforms to share and reflect on their practice.
Transforming learning completes the loop with research informed pedagogies and curriculum that provide students with personalised, authentic and challenging learning experiences.
For more information on innovative ISS initiatives visit www.thelevel5.org or www.iss.edu.
John Burns is the Director of Creativity & Innovation at International Schools Services where he works with administrators and educators to transform their practice. He has previously held positions with Apple, Shekou International School and the Queensland government and has a passion for change leadership, contemporary learning and designing collaborative spaces.
I think we all agree creativity is good.
I think most of us agree that innovation is good.
Only a few of us might think think the idea of an administrator whose title is Director of Creativity and Innovation is good.
My talk with John Burns today will likely take the skeptic to that role and convert them into a fan, if not a fanboy. ;)
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