Innovative activity of rural schools as a factor of its development

Innovative activity considered as the most important factor and as one of the main conditions for the development of all subjects of a general educational organization and its surrounding territory. In a rural (non-urban) school, innovative activity has specific features due to a number of special circumstances, including: the involvement of the educational institution in the rural society and the school's influence on the socio-cultural educational situation of the territory; the special density and closeness of business and interpersonal relations between schoolchildren and teachers, teachers and families/parents, the school and its social environment.The sources of innovation can be the problems and resources of a rural educational organization. Unlike an urban one, a rural school has a slightly different range of problems and a different set of resources for development. In determining the target guidelines, the nature, content, methods and forms of innovative activity of rural school, according to the authors of the article, one should rely on positive features, on the potentials inherent in the originality of this type of educational institutions. Are characterised development potentials inherent in one of the Karelian schools — Pryazhinskaya secondary school of the Republic of Karelia. The choice of the topic/problem of systemic innovation activity of the institution is substantiated. The idea, logic and content of the innovative work of the teaching staff of the school are revealed in the sequence of programs: «Formation of a viable student personality in rural society» (2007 2012), «School of personal growth» (2012 2018), «Basic department» (2018 — present). Technologies and forms are present, ways and means of implementing the goals and objectives of innovation in the experience of rural (non-urban) school are shown.