When Jami Fluke and I started our partnership together, we defined an Audacious Aspiration, that of unleashing the Creative Genius of every student in her school.
At that time, Jami was the principal of Dayton Junior High and High School in a rural community in Dayton, Oregon. I had been invited down to her school to explore how the agile culture and practices that underpin the new creative economy might be used to reimagine education and to better prepare students for this new economy.
Our story became a book, The Dayton Experiment 
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There was no ten-point plan that we could follow. Instead, we had to bravely Walk into the Unknown over and over again, committed to learning fast.
What happened in that experiment astonished us and all of those around us. In two years the entire school culture was transformed and spirited, life-giving learning was everywhere, something we came to call a Joyful Sandbox.
When Jami and I set forth on this path, we sought not only to transform the learning experience in her school but also to become a model for others – a Positive Deviant.
And it worked. Schools from around the US began to be curious about how they might reimagine but quickly this movement became international after a group of school leaders from Australia came to the school for a visit.
Next: Gobsmacking the Aussies
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