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Smith & Kayce Anne Smith, UNC Wilmington  \nAbstract  \nFor many years, the main approach to educational improvement has consisted of highstakes testing and accountability. While this approach has achieved some success, it has also created negative outcomes including a narrowing of the curriculum, and an overtesting of students. Against this backdrop, there are examples of teachers that have introduced new and innovative approaches to teaching and learning. This study explores teachers’perceptions of innovative approaches and the supports and obstacles to innovation.  \nKeywords: Innovation, Accountability, School Improvement, Collaboration, School Change  \nIntroduction  \nFor many years, the main approach to educational improvement in the United States, England and Australia has consisted of high stakes testing and accountability. The assumption has been that if high standards are set and measurable goals implemented then student achievement would improve. This approach, which still prevails today, relies on rewards and punishments to incentivize competition between teachers, schools and districts. Rewards include bonuses for teachers and principals and positive recognition for higher test scores, and punishments include designation asa failing school, a loss of funding and the school being taken over by the state (Sheninger & Murray, 2017) . In the United States, Federal government policies of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, have played a major role in shaping this agenda. While high stakes testing and accountability have achieved some success, e.g. improved graduation rates in the United States, they have also created many negative outcomes. These include: a narrowing of the curriculum, a focus on low level skills, teaching to the test, an over-testing of students and some schools and districts falsely misrepresenting their numbers (Darling-Hammond, Bae, Cook-Harvey, Lam, Mercer, Podolsky & Stosich, 2016). But against this backdrop, which Couros (2015) describes as a culture of compliance, there are examples of teachers and schools that have introduced new and innovative approaches to teaching and learning. Through surveying teachers in North Carolina, this study sought to explore teachers’ perceptions of innovative approaches in their classrooms, schools and districts, and to understand the supports and obstacles to innovation.  \nOne of the main concerns with high stakes testing and accountability is the negative effects on student learning, specifically the failure to “foster learning and growth or promote curiosity anda drive to succeed”(Brown & Berger, 2014, p. 55) . The overreliance on testing encourages rote memorization whereby students forget what they have learned after the test is over. Not only does this waste time and resources, but it also leads to an engagement crisis as students see little value in what they are doing (Sheninger & Murray, 2017) . Beyond consideration of students’ individual  \ndevelopment are many questions about students’ preparation to participate in a changing society and for the world of work. Brown and Berger (2014) state, we need to “ensure that our schools are adequately preparing students for the ever-changing global society in which we live”(p. xix) . With new challenges constantly arising,“students must be taught to think critically, they must learn to collaborate with others from around the world to develop solutions to problems and they must learn how to ask the right questions-questions that will challenge old systems and inspire growth”(Couros, 2015, p. 5) .  \nViews on Innovation and Educational Change  \nWe live in a world with rapid changes in technology, new products and new ways of doing business and where innovation is viewed as critical to business success (Sattell, 2017) . 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