Innovation platforms at school: organization of activities

The basic concepts of innovation activity are considered from the standpoint of the development of modern Russian education. It is shown that innovation activity is a mandatory direction of effective implementation of the main functions of a general education institution. The activity of the school – laboratory of innovative development in its diversity is analyzed and summarized. The specific experience of functioning of federal and regional innovation platforms operating on the basis of an educational organization is presented. We disclose the goals and main tasks of each platform, the topics of innovation projects and programs implemented on their basis. The main problems are identified, which are solved in the process of activity of innovation platforms. As an example, we analyze the specific activity of an educational institution in the field of innovation mechanisms for achieving subject, meta-subject, personal educational results of students in the context of the introduction of the Federal State Educational Standard of General Education, the development of the housing and educational movement in the system of continuing education of the Tambov Region and the development of intra-institutional education quality assessment systems.