10 Years Strong! Berwick Innovation Center & Innovation Pursuit Program By Darcy Coffta, Director of Innovation, Berwick Academy (ME)
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onceptualized and designed in 2008-09 as a program that would provide opportunities for students to customize a learning experience, Berwick’s Innovation Center and Innovation Pursuit (IP) program celebrated 10-years of accomplishments this past May. From the very beginning, what made Berwick’s IPs innovative were the qualities of being student-driven and student-designed. Students have a voice in their learning and eagerly follow passions to develop a body of work that, over the course of many months, represents a wealth of experience. Back in 2009, I researched best practices in project design and built a framework for the program that included 21st century learning skills;
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The OESIS Network Innovation Quarterly
March 2020
