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MITx: 11154x_XQ Launching Innovation in Schools: XQ Edition

Redesigning a system as complex as high school requires innovative thinking both during the design process and continuously as the school runs. Launching Innovation in Schools: XQ Edition is designed to provide you with tools and mindsets to support your work in revolutionizing education. 

Based on the work of Justin Reich (Comparative Media Studies and Teaching Systems Lab, MIT) and Peter Senge (MIT Sloan), this course will focus on visioning and capacity-building, with an emphasis on collaboration and building partnerships with stakeholders at multiple levels. You'll still be working toward fundamental change in the structure of high school, but you'll be focusing on experiments and actions you can tackle right now in the context you're currently working in. The course videos, assignments, and other resources will provide inspiration and support as you do this important work. Innovation happens through a process of experimentation and iteration, and this course is an excellent opportunity to practice that process by embracing a meaningful challenge in service of rethinking school. 

• Unit 0: Welcome (October 12, 2017)
• Unit 1: Launching Innovation in Schools (October 12, 2017)
  Assignment 1.1: Graduate Profile (suggested due date: October 25, 2017)
  Assignment 1.2: Defining a Problem of Practice (suggested due date: October 25, 2017)

• Unit 2: Bringing People Together Around Ideas They Care About (October 26, 2017)
  Assignment 2: Asset Map & Reflection (suggested due date: November 1, 2017)

• Unit 3a: Refining a Vision & Unit 3b: Getting to Work (November 2, 2017)
  High-Leverage Initiative Parts 1 and 2 (suggested due date: November 15, 2017) 

• Unit 4: Working Together Through Ups and Downs (November 9, 2017) 
• Unit 5:  Measuring Progress & Adjusting (November 16, 2017)
  High-Leverage Initiative Part 3 (suggested due date: November 20, 2017)

• Unit 6: Sustaining Innovation in Schools (Tuesday, November 21, 2017)
  Assignment 6: Final Deliverable (suggested due date November 30, 2017)