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implement an extended daily schedule for targeted, small-group learning; increase student-centered instruction and instructional time; allow students to spend a portion of their time in school with online learning; make content come alive with integrated multimedia experiences through technology; enable students to proceed with learning at their own pace; support teachers in their ongoing professional development, during the school year and through the summer; and communicate regularly and engage with parents, including access to free digital-literacy classes and other online programs.

students must learn to analyze and solve problems, collaborate, persevere, take calculated risks and learn from failure.

In most high-school and college classes, failure is penalized.

2.   Not generating and managing ideas that deliver real growth, mostly due to a lack of any effective decision-making process, organised governance and structure to manage this.

3.   A on-going failure in not effectively seeking out external insights in clear ways and lacking a capturing structure to achieve this, so simply restricting the real awareness of the external environment to the necessary person internally within the organization.

4.   The inability to draw down from a diverse set of networks, partners, systems and people and then connecting them in a ecosystem to acquire, transform or exploit this new knowledge for new innovation.

Innovation is doing things differently.

Results from schools that are breaking the mold indicate that it is very possible to deliver very good academic results that are product of customized learning and more relationship time.