8 Principles for Leading Great School Meetings and Creating a Great School
“An exciting and inspiring approach to tackling deeper systems transformation.”
– Professor Michael Fullan
If you are like most school leaders, you worry that your school meetings are not as productive as they could be but don’t quite know how to change them. You might have tried to change other’s behaviour and found that it doesn’t help and often makes things worse.
You may often feel frustrated when you come out of a meeting and don’t see the engagement, enthusiasm and energy that you would like to see.
Despite the awesome benefits of online technology, face to face communication (i.e. meetings) still represents the best form of communication and best way of effecting development and change for any organisation including a school. And yet, so many school meetings produce less than optimal outcomes.
We’ve put together a paper to share 8 principles that will enable you to lead great school meetings. If you implement these principles, you will find that you will actually need less total meeting time across your school to produce far better results.
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Testimonials
“I can now honestly say that I have never seen such an approach produce such positive outcomes, goodwill and energy.”
– Deidre Anderson, CEO, U@MQ, Macquarie University
“An exciting and inspiring approach to tackling deeper systems transformation.”
– Professor Michael Fullan
“The Future Search conference encouraged me to take risks. When I heard about TIMMS (Third International Mathematics and Science Study), I went back to my colleagues and said, “I think we can do something with this. We finished 1st in Science and 6th in Maths.”
– Pat Franzen, Science Teacher, Naperville Community School District
“These exemplary principles for facilitating group process have helped us create the space where individuals can take responsibility for their own learning and act upon the decisions they make.”
– Deborah B Reeve EdD, Deputy Executive Director, National Association of Elementary School Principals
"The average scores for youth apprenticeship students went up 200 points on the Statewide standardised tests and enrolments increased by 300%. Today there is a waiting list!"
– Mike Erwin, Principal, North Montgomery County Technical Career School
“I was very impressed with the Future Search approach and have used aspects of it in my own school.”
– Richard Morgan, Principal, The Pittwater House Schools