This document provides 6 simple strategies to spark an innovative mindset in the classroom: 1. Ask beautiful questions to focus topics and improve questioning. 2. Generate 10 ideas per day to strengthen the idea muscle with regular ideation. 3. Use sketchnotes for visual learning across multiple intelligences. 4. Implement D.E.A.R. 2.0 (Drop Everything And Reflect) time for modeling reflection. 5. Move the crowd by varying postures to increase concentration and learning. 6. Connect and share work by maintaining a beginner's mindset and willingness to learn.

1. INNOVATIVE
MINDSET
6 S I M P L E S T R A T E G I E S T O S P A R K A N
in your classroom

2. FRED
JARAVATA
K8 Educational Innovation Coordinator
Convent & Stuart Hall
Schools of the Sacred Heart
San Francisco, CA
sacredsf.org
Twitter @FredJaravata
website: TeachingBites.com

6. Ask Beautiful Questions
10 Ideas a Day
Sketchnotes
D.E.A.R. 2.0
Move the Crowd
Connect & Share
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7. Ask Beautiful Questions
Focus topic
Question Dump
Time limit
Improve Questions
Prioritize Questions
Find out what actions are needed for each
Reflect
“You don’t learn unless you question.”
― Warren Berger, A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to
Spark Breakthrough Ideas

8. 10 Ideas a Day
“Coming up with ten ideas a day is like exercise. And
exercise makes the idea muscle stronger.”
― James Altucher, Become An Idea Machine: Because Ideas
Are The Currency Of The 21st Century
Start writing 10 ideas a day
Brain starts to sweat at around 6 ideas
Avoid perfection
The more ideas, the better they get
Find the next actions

9. Sketchnotes
Visual, auditory, reading and writing and kinesthetic

10. D.E.A.R. 2.0
If we had “Drop Everything And Reflect” time embedded in our
week, could you not find the time to model the importance of
reflection for your students by sharing what you have learned?
­George Couros, Principal, Author of The Innovator's Mindset

11. Move the Crowd
"Studies of pupils show a direct positive correlation between
the opportunity to vary the way you sit ­ for example, being
able to rock backwards and forwards and swivel in your chair ­
and test results. Our capacity for concentrating and learning
increases when we have the opportunity to move."
­­Dr. Dieter Breithecker

12. Be a newbie
Keep the Beginner's Mind
"It's not like I'm going to be..."
"But, at least I can..."

13. References
Ask Beautiful Questions by Warren Berger
Become an Idea Machine by Claudia Altucher
Creative Confidence by Tom Kelly & David Kelly
Creative Innovators by Tony Wagner
Doodle Revolution by Sunni Brown
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Innovator’s Mindset by George Couros
Moonshots in Education by Esther Wojcicki
Movement in Learning by Dieter Breithecker
Originals by Adam Grant & Sheryl Sanberg
Sketchnotes by Mike Rohde
Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg
Start with Why by Simon Sinek
Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
War of Art by Steven Pressfield

14. Thank you!
Need more? Welcome to visit
fred.jaravata@sacredsf.org
@FredJaravata

15. SPARK THE
INNOVATIVE
MINDSET
A T E A C H E R ' S G U I D E T O
in your classroom