Full Description
The inherited model of schooling based on same-age tutor groups is not only wrong but anti-learning and unsafe. When examined from a systems perspective, the assumptions are revealed. This explains why schools fail to respond to reform and why reform is the wrong approach. It blames the same-age structure as the direct cause of bullying, poor parent partnership, mental health issues and more, pointing out the system's separation from psychology and child welfare. When schools adopt a mixed-age system (tutor groups / home-groups mixed by age) these adverse effects are resolved. The book calls for wholesale change to the way schools organize relationships and issues of connectivity. The author uses insights and research from his work with hundreds of schools worldwide transitioning from the same-age system to one based on mixed-age. This book rejects the use of pro-social programs (add-ons and fixes) in favor of one able to design in empathy, emotional intelligence, and character.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section One: The School as a Living System
1.Systems, Purposes, and Problems -A First Look
2.Reacting to Disturbances
3.From Collaborative Professionalism to Social Collaboration
4.The Pusher, the Puller and Thinking Differently
5.The School as a Living System: Disturbance and Fast Fixes
6.More Disturbance -Bullying
7.Mental Health and Systems
8.The School as a Viable System
9.Wicked problems and Parent Partnership
10.Distributed Leadership, Psychology and Collective Teacher Efficacy
Section Two: The Long and Winding Road to the Socially Collaborative School
11.A First Management Trawl
12.From New Public Management (NPM) to Public Value Management (PVM)
13.The Problem of Deliverology
14.Talent Management and a First Look at Teams
15.Google and Emerging Thinking
16.School Culture
17.Learning from the Public Sector
18.Learning Organizations and the Color Teal
19.The Buurtzorg School
20.Moving from Complicated to Complex: the Strange Case of the Effect List
21.Concluding Remarks: Two Management Models and Systems Thinking
Chapter Summaries
Appendices
Bibliography
About the Author
