• 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 Relations
    • 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
  • 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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