Attempting to Turn Ideas into Actions

Identifying problems is not the issue; turning the problem into a solution, followed by action.…

Here is the cross road the doe-eyed, self-identified do-gooders stand. 

The discussion in class from the article Identifying Venture Opportunities, using educational background, travel, contextual knowledge, etc. to help recognize prospects helped to give the green light to a wave of issues, passions and experiences.   The article notes that the “dominant source of venture ideas is prior employment” (Venture Design), when your prior employment consists of three US public schools, it’s easy to allow the wheels to spin into all hours of the night. 

While typing, new ideas are circling around.  Writing them on paper has certainly helped, but does everyone get a light bulb moment? Can you get several light bulb moments?

The education system in this country is plagued by an achievement gap that many creative minds are diligently spending all of their hours addressing.  Charter schools, magnet schools, school reform, policy changes, online schools, new teacher training programs, advocate groups, non-profits, all existing out of the need to make systemic long term change of how we teach our children. 

 

Thinking big is inspiring, "what if money wasn't an issue, there was no push back to innovative change, policies were enacted quickly, teacher training is overhauled and replaced, children are properly fed at school..."

The opportunity space is large enough, the problem is certainly big enough, and the timing is certainly now, or yesterday. 

How do we move past the discovery phase where there is so much work to be done?