Creating and Sustaining Innovation

Professional Development Credit – This Micro-Credential may be eligible for continuing professional development credit in your state. Contact your state affiliate association to learn more.

Overview – The Creating and Sustaining Innovation Micro-Credential requires the practitioner to demonstrate proficiency of all the essential outcomes and the research-based subskills defined in the details. These include the ability to: establish and support participation to implement a new vision to promote organizational excellence and transformation; develop deep mindfulness of others’ viewpoints and perspectives; provide organizational structures to create and support an innovative culture; generate knowledge and insight through nontraditional ways; and provide a plan with strategies, implementation, and a monitoring process to create and sustain innovation for organizational improvement. “The social changes of the globalized world demand greater competences and challenges, which imply that school organizations must adapt themselves to this changing, demanding, and challenging system. For this reason, it is necessary that school organizations have the capacity to innovate, that this capacity is institutionalized, that it forms part of their culture, and corresponds to a collective effort (Riveras-Leon & Tomàs-Folch, 2019).

Essential Outcomes – Creating and Sustaining Innovation includes the following identified essential outcomes:

1. Establish and support participation to implement a new vision which promotes excellence and transformation throughout the organization.
2. Develop deep awareness and knowledge of others’ viewpoints and perspectives.
3. Provide organizational structures that create and support an innovative culture.
4. Generate knowledge and insight through nontraditional ways.
5. Provide a plan with strategies, implementation timelines, evaluation, and a monitoring process to establish best practice in creating and sustaining innovation for organizational improvement.

Requirements

Part 1. Overview Questions

Develop a responsive narrative that answers the following questions (1,000-word minimum):

1. What resources and supports have you implemented to support and promote evidenced-based, innovative solutions and transformation throughout the organization and to improve student learning?
2. What processes and procedures have you established to ensure broad participation in developing vision, mission, values related to and highlighting innovative practices?
3. What strategies have you used to show evidence of gathering and applying multiple views to change management, deepen awareness of others’ viewpoints and perspectives?
4. What process have you used to develop and implement a plan to provide organizational structures that create, support and sustain an innovative culture that demonstrates what continuous improvement involves and how it’s evolving your leadership practices?

Part 2. Skill Demonstration Product with Self-Analysis

Develop an artifact portfolio that captures the essential outcomes for the Creating and Sustaining Innovation Micro-Credential and complete the evidence self-analysis.

For each essential outcome detail, you will be required to reference an uploaded artifact(s) and guide the assessor to the specific evidence (page number, video time stamp, etc.) within the uploaded artifact(s). An explanation of how the evidence demonstrates proficiency of the outcome detail is also required. The practitioner must clearly and compellingly demonstrate proficiency of every detail under each essential outcome.

Part 3. Reflection & Application

Submit, in writing, a summary of your experience of Creating and Sustaining Innovation (500-word minimum). Provide specific examples of how you applied all components of the essential outcomes. This could include topics covered and a description of the process used to generate a vision that begins the process of change in a sustainable, meaningful, and human-centered way, develop stakeholder acceptance of change, and identify priorities to begin building and sustaining innovative organizational change capacity.