10 Most Innovative Schools You’ll Want to Attend

10 Most Innovative Schools You’ll Want to Attend

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Innovation in education can look like a lot of things. It can be a one-classroom school where everyone interacts with everyone, or it can be a school that's blind to gender. In this video, we'll be looking at some of the most innovative schools that'll make you wanna get enrolled in school again. One of them even takes in older people, so stay tuned for that!
Steve Jobs School, Amsterdam
As its namesake suggests, the Steve Jobs school rejects the conventional wisdom in full: Instead of corralling kids through the same educational system, they go at their own pace. Maurice de Hond, the school's founder, told Tech Insider that each student begins with an Individual Development Plan (IDP), which is evaluated and readjusted every six weeks by the child, his or her parents, and the coach. Yes, the school doesn't call them "teachers." "Based on the outcome of the IDP, the child is offered new personal learning challenges and instruction moments to choose from.
All students in the 4th to 12th-grade school receive iPads fully loaded with apps to guide individualized learning. According to the founder, The goal is to get kids to design their own education. In a Steve Jobs School, no child is an exception as every child works at its own pace.
Egalia, Sweden
From the moment a child is born, its gender pretty much determines how they will dress, which toys they'll be given, and ultimately how they are meant to behave within society. But some schools in Sweden are trying to strip away such gender norms. Egalia, which means 'equality' in Latin, goes to great lengths to de-emphasize gender. Children are given the freedom to challenge and cross gender boundaries.
Rather than encourage children to do particular things, the teachers are careful not to box children based on their gender or subtly discourage them from doing certain things. The school has completely removed the terms "girl" and "boy." Instead, they make a deliberate effort to call each child by their first name or the gender-neutral pronoun "hen." At Egalia, kids are kids, and nothing else.
In that sense, Egalia, which opened in 2010, has a growing number of peers around the world. In favor of openness and tolerance, schools are foregoing typical labels that risk putting kids in boxes too early.
Big Picture Learning School, Rhode Island
The Big Picture Learning school wanted its students to learn something most of us didn't get to learn while in school. All of the components of this school's design are based on three foundational principles: "First, that learning must be based on the interests and goals of each student; second, that a student's curriculum must be relevant to people and places that exist in the real world; and finally, that a student's abilities must be authentically measured by the quality of her or his work." With an on-time graduation rate of 90% and over 95% of their graduates being accepted into college, I would say they are doing just that. The students help create their own personal curriculum, one that reflects and expands their own interests and aspirations. How cool is that?
And that's the big picture of life. This model breaks down the walls between education and the working world. From the beginning, k-12 students learn their creative passions will come first. To help stoke those passions, students are paired with mentors who work in the fields the students want to someday enter.
The system is currently in place at 55 schools in the USA. To that end, each student completes an LTI, or Learning Through Internship. If you want your child to be highly ambitious, this is the school for your kid! The projects are connected to the student's interests and meet the needs of the mentors, whether that involves starting a business, fixing up cars, or learning the letter of the law.
Ørestad Gymnasium, Denmark.
Okay, hear us out: a school with just one classroom! Sounds pretty awesome, right!? Ørestad Gymnasium is one giant classroom, where 358 high school students learn in an expansive glass cube to avoid traditional instruction. By encouraging students to collaborate in wide-open settings, the school hopes kids will be equipped to think flexibly on diverse topics later in life.
Headmaster Allan Kjær Andersen told Tech Insider, "We want to have teaching where the students do research and work together in solving real problems. So, we want to be an open school that is in connection with the outside world."

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