The development of connotation is the inevitable choice for the education to get out of the external dilemma,and it has special value to the return of the nature of the education.At present,the development of connotation practiced by many schools has formal,stereotyped and simplified problems.What's more,some schools regard it as face of political projects,and those schools have deviations for the location of the educational connotation.Based on the research and analysis of thirty case schools in Jiangsu Province,we can refine the joints of the development of educational connotation,that is:the concept of connotation development requires that the education should return to its essence;the core of educational connotation is the presentation of the value of the students' lives;the educational connotation development can not ignore the value of the classroom teaching innovation;it needs making out the foundation of the campus cultural construction;the focus of the development of educational connotation is to arouse the teachers' independence of professional development.