“ Building the Innovation School: Infrastructures for Equity in Today's Classrooms is an especially valued and unreservedly recommended addition to school district, college, and university library Experimental Education Methods & Theories collections.”
—Midwest Book Review
“In Building the Innovation School, Nichols provides a much-needed, nuanced account of what happens when and how innovation lands in a school, how it gets picked up, what gets renegotiated, and what emerges unexpectedly. His proposal builds on careful observations collected over multiple years and provides detailed insights into how the process of innovation unfolds from the first time teachers and administrators meet in the school district to lay the foundation for the school, to later years when teachers and students deal with revisiting and developing assignments…. There is something very hopeful in the message of this book.”
—From the Foreword by Yasmin B. Kafai, Distinguished Professor, University of Pennsylvania
“The field of education has been waiting for Building the Innovation School, by T. Philip Nichols. Written in an engaging conversational tone, yet deeply informed theoretically and empirically, Nichols’s groundbreaking scholarship examines the tensions of educational reform initiatives driven by entrepreneurial models. It also provides a paradigm-shifting conceptual framework for understanding the possibilities of innovation in a manner attentive to issues of power, social justice, and the public good. It is a book that deserves to be widely read by anyone invested in creative schools that build off of the cultural wealth of communities.”
—Gerald Campano, professor, University of Pennsylvania
“The hype around 'innovation’ in education requires our careful, critical attention—this exceptionally well-written study is a great place to start.”
—Neil Selwyn, Distinguished Professor, Monash University, Melbourne
