Many education organizations today have defined themselves by targeting specific communities. This approach enables them to get to know a customer market and customize their services to the market needs.
Many of these initiatives also want to eventually broaden their impact to students nationwide. This objective invites the question of how these initiatives will disperse their targeted services to the communities that most need them. School models such as KIPP that help educationally underserved, primarily minority communities may not work as well in more diverse, well-educated communities. On the other hand, curriculum developers such as K12 that serves mainly homeschoolers could potentially contribute insights to traditional classroom curriculum development.
How does a principal wade through all the recent innovations to identify those that are most applicable to his/her school? GreatSchools.net offers parents an online guide to schools providing detailed profiles, enabling them to evaluate and identify schools that match their criteria. Perhaps there is an opportunity to create a similar service for superintendents, principals, and teachers. A service that will help school staff identify the most applicable niche models or borrow practices from other niches that match their criteria. Only by empowering school decision-makers across the country to access the innovation and knowledge that is currently being generated, will we be able to truly help education reach the tipping point of change.
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