There is a Price to Pay for Having a Price to Pay: Where Should Innovation Live in the Jewish Day School Ecosystem?
Source: Prizmah
As I have indicated before, it will be my intent (in a May blog post) to clarify how Prizmah intends to engage with Jewish day schools in the innovation space. Here, in my penultimate “Innovation Alley” blog post, I’d like to zoom in on how disruption and collaboration function – or don’t – in the Jewish educational ecosystem.
What can we learn from the existing different attempts to encourage increased innovation in the Jewish education space and Jewish day schools? How should Prizmah think about its role in supporting innovation in Jewish day schools in light of this learning?
We have an abundance of networks to join, listservs to subscribe to, blogs to follow, etc., but we (edJEWcon, Prizmah, the field) have failed to create a vehicle for facilitating and supporting innovation that truly incorporates the kind of transparent sharing and active collaboration our schools and children deserve. At least so far…
As Prizmah contemplates its role in this work moving forward, here are some of the guiding questions we’ll be contemplating:
- Does the world need another network (reshet) for “innovation” or would a “network of networks” be more appropriate?
- How can we inspire a field wide culture of meaningful sharing?
- What really is “thought leadership” and does it matter?
- Where will new ideas come from? Who is doing R&D? Who is funding it?
Read the entire post at Prizmah.