Thomas R. Hoerr, a Louis school administrator, wrote an article in an academic publication, “Educational Leadership,” which explored the different ways to innovate education by using checklists in instruction and to measure student progress.
Writer and surgeon, Atul Gawande, writes a book detailing how surgeons and educators need checklists to help patients and students.
In Baltimore Dr. Peter Pronovost, a physician and researcher at Johns Hopkins Hospital, creates a checklist to assist medical staff who use catheters to give blood or drugs to intensive care patients.
Aviation safety authorities and pilots create the checklist after a Boeing B-17 plane crashed during WWII, admitting that the complex nature of pilots’ work was too challenging to do by memory and required a more standardized way to ensure the safety of the aircraft.
