Response: Dos & Don’ts of Implementing New Ideas in Education

We’ve been making the case over the past two decades for a new idea about an ancient skill too long taken for granted: Teach all people to ask their own questions. We arrived at this work by making a mistake, learning from it, then making more mistakes. Along the way, we managed to learn a lot about how to take a new idea and successfully plant it in many communities and across many fields including education, healthcare, advocacy, and democratic and civic participation. Here are six lessons in the form of key questions we ask ourselves to help move from ideas to practice.