Abstract
Members of an Innovation School committee from Florida Gulf Coast University and the School District of Lee County share their individual and collective perspectives on designing a new traditional public school as an inquiry-based innovation school through an articulated partnership. Perspectives are shared through the lens of narrative inquiry and combined through a categorial analysis. This paper focuses on the essentials the themes from our shared perspectives have addressed to date. Narrative expressions are used to identify the accelerators, barriers, and next steps.