Ted Dintersmith

You know, something that they viewed that would be an important problem to solve or opportunity to create, where they would be learning important skills in the process, trying it, failing, trying it, failing, trying it, failing, but by May...

damn it all, they have something they could display, and the school does an entire display, and we show that in my first film, Most Likely to Succeed, where these kids are bursting with pride, and the adults are coming and saying, like, wow, you did that.

Like, if we did that, we'd start to at least nourish the entrepreneurial aspect of all of our kids.

Some will do really well, some won't, but I think they would all benefit from that.

That would be the first point.

The second thing is to really rethink accountability.

And we talked about that a few minutes ago.

When we obsess about these very narrow measures of math and reading scores, it...

And I see this over and over and over again.

It pushes aside innovation.

We would like our kid to do X, but that may take some hours away from drilling on irrational numbers or something.

And then we have a film out, so I've been busy, but I've got the new book out, Aftermath, but I also have a film out called Multiple Choice.

And it's fascinating.

I mean, I do these films.

They're not cheap to do.

But I visited this school, a public school in Winchester, Virginia.

I just love what they're doing.

When I left there, I said, we're going to make a film about this.

Because mainstream public school...

that brilliantly they create something they call the Innovation Center.