Future schools and innovation

Effective school leaders consciously support innovation and keep a focus on education’s ever-changing landscape as it moves into the future.

New Zealand articles and resources

Enabling e-Learning

Enabling e-Learning is the Ministry of Education’s online ‘hub’ for ICT-related education resources and programmes in New Zealand, bringing together everything that school leaders and teachers need to improve their e-learning practice.

Shifting to 21st Century Thinking

The term ’21st century learning’ is a kind of shorthand for what needs to be different in schools if young people are to be well prepared for life in the Knowledge Age.

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OECD Report: Improving School Leadership

This report prepared by the Ministry of Education describes the policy setting for improving school leadership in New Zealand.

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Other resources

Eight Forces for Leaders of Change

by Michael Fullan, Claudia Cuttress, and Ann Kilcher

This article considers the process of leading change in schools. The 'eight' forces are guidelines that provide ways to think about the process, and suggest topics for discussion and evaluating the process.

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Schooling for Tomorrow: OECD Scenarios

These six scenarios from the Schooling for Tomorrow series developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Centre for Education for Research (CERI) are clustered into three categories: attempting to maintain the status quo, re-schooling, and de-schooling.

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The New Enterprise Logic of Schools: The Leadership Challenge

by Brian Caldwell

This article presents some interesting ideas about the future of schooling and implications for school leaders. The author suggests that school leaders must not be risk averse. He emphasises the need for schools to be in a range of partnerships, and discusses global convergence.

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The School of the Future: Key Issues for School Leaders

by David Bennett

This article looks at the challenges that leaders of schools in the future may need to face, together with five sets of leadership qualities to meet them.

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Meet the Changemakers

by Angela Spencer

This article from NCSL's Ldr magazine is succinct, practical, and relevant. It provides ideas for schools thinking about environmentally sustainable issues. It describes the efforts made by several schools in the UK to tackle the challenge of focusing on future-oriented education.

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