Metamatrix har under åren 2007-2009 arbetat i ett globalt forskningprojekt som heter Innovative School program. Rapporten för utvärderingen av år 1 är publicerad, och i början av 2010 kommer en slutrapport från projektet.
Through its Innovative Schools Program, Microsoft seeks to promote innovative teaching and learning, with the goal of providing models of effective instruction that help students build the necessary skills for success in the 21st century. From 2007 to 2009, 12 pilot Innovative Schools in 12 countries have been working together with a local Microsoft partner and the worldwide community of Innovative Schools to design and implement new and locally relevant approaches to education.
Significant educational change typically requires far more than a year to implement, particularly for those schools that are working within traditional national systems of education. Nevertheless, some of the pilot schools—including schools that were already on a strong path to reform when the Innovative Schools Program began, but also some schools for whom reform is a newer goal—were developing instructional approaches that could serve as models for like-minded reformers. Some of the schools are also implementing promising strategies to address common challenges of reform, including supports for teachers as they begin to enact educational change and practical ways to create time for common planning and individual practice.
