Page 1 - in box.
A better mechanism for change, based on bottom up innovation strategy in education is available, if we choose to take it.
I think that at the top of page 2, there should be be a summary box comparing current top down to proposed bottom up. A bit like an exec summary but in a small table. Maybe could even be at the bottom of page 1?
                    Current                Proposed
                   Top Down             Bottom Up
Change            Unwanted by majority    Welcomed by innovators
Failure             Often and costly        Low cost and low impact
Speed of change     Slow                 Fast
How many innovations Few each taking long  Many with shorter timeframes
Funding            Central and high Cost   Private and Low CostÂ
Long term exports     Low as seen as Govt    Many driven by VC
Page 3
Headline perhaps as a summary of this section. Something like - "Our current approach to innovation is education policy is centrally driven, top down and too costly."
Also think that something mentioning that Funding follows policy targets. So when funding is tight, innovation is left out as schools have to spend what money they have on products that allow them to meet historic targets. Â
Page 5 - mention perhaps the "tipping Point"Â as Tipping Point is well understood to explain adoption by mainstream schools.
Perhaps define what you mean by early adopter, mainstream and laggard. Perhaps use the take up of academy status as a bottom up example of innovation to explain this?
Academy status has been around since 2002 or so so its taken 20years cycle for secondary schools to convert. What drove early ones, what held back laggards?
Trying to put a frame of actual fact around concept?
If a top down approach had occurred, all schools would have been made academies on day 1. Â
The rest to me is fairly self explanatory.
I just think you need to be more upfront with explanations at the begginng and headline exec summaries of a sort. Â
Hope this helps,
Jonathan
Jonathan Wells
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