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The 12 Components
➢ How should schools be? Start with a purpose. Come up with a metaphor for learning in your school. The metaphor you decide on will shape your action. ➢ Is your school an assembly line?, a community?, a business?, a nation state? etc ➢ Come to understanding about the essential purpose of school today.
 * 1. Decide the purpose of schooling.**

➢ What is most valued in your school. Tell the stories about what is most valued in your school and why. Include the stories of students and the parents. ➢ Develop an agreed set of values and beliefs for your school
 * 2. Identify values which you hold dear to as a school community**

➢ Schools cannot shut the gates they need to connect with the community. ➢ Hold workshops, meetings with your community so they to know about changes and can provide their point of view
 * 3. Engaging with external context**

➢ Run surveys for parents, students, teachers. ➢ Develop an informed perspective. ➢ Convince people of the need for change ➢ Create a sense of urgency
 * 4. Include Everybody**

➢ Understand what good learning is ➢ Sensing, observing, listening, reflecting acting ➢ Reflect on what you are doing now and how you see into the future.
 * 5. Presencing**

➢ Work on the learning in your school. What does it look like in practice. Align your beliefs with what is or needs to happen in the classroom 7. Lead Appropriately for change. ➢ Read, talk, visit so you are prepared
 * 6. Develop a shared paradigm**

➢ Listen ➢ Avoid balkanising the opposition ➢ Provide opportunities to express concern ➢ Be aware of gate keepers ➢ Bear the projected anger ➢ Develop resilience as a leader ➢ Keep the staff informed ➢ Change on the upcycle ( Handy’s sigmoid curve)
 * 8. Manage change and micro politics**

➢ Learning consultant ➢ Process consultant
 * 9. Provide appropriate PD- get help if you need it.**

➢ Resources will be stretched so keep an eye on the ball
 * 10. Adapt structures and architecture**

➢ Make sure you continually reflect on your progress. Talk to parents, students, revisit the vision and your values
 * 11. Evaluate regularly**

➢ Change is continuous. Make sure your staff are comfortable with the fact that you will never get “there” There will always be areas to review ➢ Programmes, architecture, pedagogy, structures and culture
 * 12. A continually reinventing school**