Innovate Inside the Box: Empowering Learners Through UDL and the Innovator's Mindset

The answer to creating innovative teaching and learning opportunities lies within you. Every educator faces constraintsfrom budget restrictions to predetermined curriculum to one-size-fits-all mandatory assessments. The question is, how can you, as a teacher or administrator, ensure that regulations and limitations dont impede authentic learning? In Innovate Inside the Box, George Couros and Katie Novak provide informed insight on creating purposeful learning opportunities for all students. By combining the power of the Innovator's Mindset and Universal Design for Learning (UDL), they empower educators to create opportunities that will benefit every learner. Couros and Novak show you how to . . . Leverage the Core of Innovative Teaching and Learning with a focus on developing meaningful relationships. Develop the 8 Characteristics of the Innovators Mindset in your studentsand yourself. Use UDL to proactively design learning experiences that foster voice and choice while addressing barriers that impede learning. Create learner-driven, evidence-informed learning experiences that provide all students with options and choices to maximize success. If youre looking to bring creativity to student learning amid all the constraints educators face, this is the book for you. Daniel Pink, author of Drive No one articulates a more compelling, a more urgent, or a more motivating vision of educationfor both teachers and their studentsthan George Couros. No one articulates how that vision can be reachedfor every student and teachermore daringly, more practically, and more inclusively, than Katie Novak. Having them together in one book not only helps us reimagine the goals and practices of education, it reminds us of why we ever wanted to be teachers at all. David Rose, PhD, CAST's cofounder and chief education officer, emeritus An incredible book! Innovate Inside the Box speaks to educators who are the change agents in their sphere of influence. Sarah Thomas, PhD, founder of EduMatch George and Katie's combined talents as spectacular storytellers drive this book. You will feel like you are flying through it and then realize how deeply you are learning. Loui Lord Nelson, PhD, author of Design and Deliver, and podcast host of UDL in 15 Minutes