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Stephanie Wiechmann
According to Muncie Community Schools and Ball State University, innovation can mean almost anything. Small changes, reorganizing things and continuous improvement. During a presentation at a two day education conference for district teachers, almost no specific ideas were given, except for the thought that students in classes like World History be sent to Europe to learn from locations firsthand. Ball State President Geoff Mearns says he trust the General Assembly is behind the efforts.

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Geoffrey Mearns
They know that this is a laboratory for innovation and experimentation, and they understand that some of those innovative efforts will not succeed. Which is not a bad thing.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
MCS CEO LeeAnn Kwiakowski says MCS could improve things that other districts do well, but MCS does poorly or not at all. She mentioned Project Lead the Way, which is a Stem based, hands on classroom program for elementary students.

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LeeAnn Kwiakowski
Some of our school districts are using Project Lead the way, and they're seeing tremendous results with that. We are just beginning to implement in a couple of our schools project Lead the Way, and we would like to expand it to all of our elementary schools.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
By law, a long term plan on the district's financial viability and academic innovation is due to lawmakers in June 2020. In Muncie, Stephanie Wiechmann, IPR news.