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Working away from trends in government policy, this book takes a
future-oriented re-imagining of schools with a focus on four innate
human capacities: collaboration, critical reflection, communication
and creativity. Miranda Jefferson and Michael Anderson draw
together examples of practice from around the world to provide a
reimagining of education. They show how our schools can be
sustainably transformed to be places of support, challenge and joy
in learning, responsive to students’ needs and the needs in our
workplaces and wider society. Readers are empowered to use
knowledge and experience to create the reality they would like to
see in their school, building engaged, innovative and active
learning, pedagogy curriculum and leadership. Key ideas are
summarised at the end of each chapter along with an extensive
referencing and bibliography, and a supporting glossary.
How Schools Transform explores the process of transformation, with
each chapter showcasing a school-based example of transformation.
Assessment, pedagogy, curriculum, leadership, values and learning
are explored before considering the key principles required across
schools to make transformation a reality. Bringing together
examples from around the world, the contributing authors give
relatable insights into the mechanics, approaches and principles
that drive authentic and sustainable transformation. Each chapter
includes student voice, embedded cases,, emerging themes,
resonances and reflections and ways forward. Anderson and Jefferson
skilfully weave together the chapters to relay the real stories and
real approaches that make transformation the reality and not just
rhetoric.
Transforming Schools demonstrates how transformation is no longer
an option in teaching and learning - it has become a necessity.
Changes in the way we work and the challenges of issues such as
climate change, poverty and migration mean that teaching and
learning need to alter to incorporate capacities that will help us
meet those challenges. The 4Cs: Creativity, Critical Reflection,
Communication and Collaboration have long been present in
education, but Transforming Schools demonstrates how schools can
change teaching and leadership to embed and enact the 4Cs to make
them central to dynamic and exciting learning. Miranda Jefferson
and Michael Anderson demonstrate how a renewed approach to teaching
that integrates the 4Cs can better equip today's learners. They
draw on their own international research and experiences in school
transformation in a variety of school settings, working in
partnership with practitioners, researchers, students and the
community. The authors consider how schools might reorganise
themselves to become more relevant to their students and to the
community. Practical strategies for transformation are included
throughout the chapters to demonstrate how learning can be
supported and how the 4Cs can be made explicit in schools. These
examples will support school leadership teams and teachers to
explicitly teach the 4Cs in relevant and challenging ways. This
book is essential reading for those looking to transform schools
and more effectively meet the needs of today's learners.
Working away from trends in government policy, this book takes a
future-oriented re-imagining of schools with a focus on four innate
human capacities: collaboration, critical reflection, communication
and creativity. Miranda Jefferson and Michael Anderson draw
together examples of practice from around the world to provide a
reimagining of education. They show how our schools can be
sustainably transformed to be places of support, challenge and joy
in learning, responsive to students' needs and the needs in our
workplaces and wider society. Readers are empowered to use
knowledge and experience to create the reality they would like to
see in their school, building engaged, innovative and active
learning, pedagogy curriculum and leadership. Key ideas are
summarised at the end of each chapter along with an extensive
referencing and bibliography, and a supporting glossary.
How Schools Transform explores the process of transformation, with
each chapter showcasing a school-based example of transformation.
Assessment, pedagogy, curriculum, leadership, values and learning
are explored before considering the key principles required across
schools to make transformation a reality. Bringing together
examples from around the world, the contributing authors give
relatable insights into the mechanics, approaches and principles
that drive authentic and sustainable transformation. Each chapter
includes student voice, embedded cases,, emerging themes,
resonances and reflections and ways forward. Anderson and Jefferson
skilfully weave together the chapters to relay the real stories and
real approaches that make transformation the reality and not just
rhetoric.
In a world where current political climates and management cultures
make risk aversion commonplace, Transforming Organizations shows
how all organizations, including large and cumbersome institutions,
can transform to suit the needs of our rapidly evolving economic
and social realities. This book looks at how organizations and
their leaders can adapt to an increasingly volatile and uncertain
operating environment through the 4Cs: Creativity Critical
reflection Communication Collaboration Based on extensive research
in the education, organizational and business sectors, Michael
Anderson and Miranda Jefferson show how the 4Cs can be embedded,
embodied and enacted in many different types of organizations to
make them more responsive to emerging challenges, threats and
opportunities. Transforming Organizations highlights clear links
between leading and learning - because leadership is no longer (if
it ever was) just a role for CEOs, CFOs and senior managers. For
organizations to be flexible and agile in the 21st century, all
employees must have the opportunity to exercise leadership. But
this can only happen if deep learning is a standard feature of a
leadership approach that actively and deliberately incorporates key
21st-century skills - the 4Cs themselves. There is a substantial
gap between companies knowing what they should do to be flexible,
creative and have clear channels of communication, and how to make
that a reality. Transforming Organizations provides the evidence
and inspiration necessary for doing business differently. Written
for those who have become disillusioned or frustrated with business
practices that cannot meet the fast-moving demands of the 21st
century, the book provides strategies and approaches developed from
the authors' work in real organizations in order to implement
change and see organizations transform for the better.
Transforming Schools demonstrates how transformation is no longer
an option in teaching and learning - it has become a necessity.
Changes in the way we work and the challenges of issues such as
climate change, poverty and migration mean that teaching and
learning need to alter to incorporate capacities that will help us
meet those challenges. The 4Cs: Creativity, Critical Reflection,
Communication and Collaboration have long been present in
education, but Transforming Schools demonstrates how schools can
change teaching and leadership to embed and enact the 4Cs to make
them central to dynamic and exciting learning. Miranda Jefferson
and Michael Anderson demonstrate how a renewed approach to teaching
that integrates the 4Cs can better equip today's learners. They
draw on their own international research and experiences in school
transformation in a variety of school settings, working in
partnership with practitioners, researchers, students and the
community. The authors consider how schools might reorganise
themselves to become more relevant to their students and to the
community. Practical strategies for transformation are included
throughout the chapters to demonstrate how learning can be
supported and how the 4Cs can be made explicit in schools. These
examples will support school leadership teams and teachers to
explicitly teach the 4Cs in relevant and challenging ways. This
book is essential reading for those looking to transform schools
and more effectively meet the needs of today's learners.
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