• Schools must break the bonds of dependency between themselves and the external environment by reducing usage of overload and packaged solutions
• Restructuring schools is a shared responsibility between teachers who are the key to improvement, and leaders.
• Needed: Cultural Change Principal, who is a big-picture and conceptual thinker and develops the organization through people. She must have a/n:

• Moral Purpose	Focus on student learning throughout the district Intentional effort in student learning Healthy respect for complexity of change process
  Understanding of change	Indepth understanding of change Innovative in the management of change Select few coherent innovations Develop shared commitment Expect and accept bumps in the road to implementation Learn from divergent views Focus on cultural change Manage change
  Improved Relation	Emotionally intelligent leaders develop relationships among divergent thinkers
  Knowledge creation and sharing	Develop organizational norms for ongoing learning, knowledge creation and sharing by example Develop structures and processes to support the learning community
  Increased coherence	Complete coherence is unattainable Careful and intentional selection of ideas that further the school mission and vision

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• Sustainability requires hard work over many years, a moral and social environment, contextual learning, leadership succession, transforming working conditions for teachers.

Michael Fullan

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