What School Leaders Can Learn About Innovation From Computer Scientists

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Linc Kroeger is the President of Knight Moves, a limited profit company creating the next generation of elite technology professionals through extensive training in technology disciplines, with an intentional focus on including Native American, rural, and urban underserved communities.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights</strong></p> <ul> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Organizations aren't designed for workforce development, computer science, diversity, or inclusion and only move people around instead of shifting culture.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The importance of specific messaging to focus on what people care about through feedback loops.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Knight Moves has a profound impact by breaking tradition and barriers for underserved communities with</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">no curriculum, no classroom, no grades.   </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Stop eliminating experience, interest and challenge by filtering out students fit for tech programs based bias.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Experiment and innovation tips that serve every Ruckus Maker.</span></li> </ul> </ul> <ul> <li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pivot, persevere, kill is the model leaders need to overcome the rigid, unrealistic systems facing education.</span></li> </ul> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I asked 400 graduates from school, tell me what impacted you most in school. Nobody ever says the curriculum in the book I had in math. It's always some important thing a teacher did in their life. That wasn't just a teacher. It was a person who could bridge people to their future.</span></p> <p><strong>-Linc Kroeger</strong></p> <p><br />