“Innovation in Education: Not just a term for startups”

big_2014-03-18-InnovationEduLevittLevitt shows that teachers and innovators share similar habitual core traits. Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovator’s DNA describes five traits of innovative thinkers: associating, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting. Levitt pulls on her own experience as both a teacher and the founder of a startup to show that each innovative thinking competency is used frequently in the classroom. Great teachers = great innovators.