http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/shoulders_of_giants/
In this video, Ariel talks about teacherpreneurship... a concept that is developed in the book Teaching 2030. I like the concept of 15% time... 15% of the teacher's week spent on developing ideas and pet projects. Teachers write a proposal, bid for a project... cost it out in terms of resources and time and look to projects that affect provision both at the school itself, and beyond - out into the system. I like this. I can see this as an engine for innovation and bottom-up, self-sustaining system development. As Paul Pastorek said, "If you create a system where initiative and creativity is valued and rewarded, then you'll get change from the bottom up."
