Finding Our Roots in the Leaves

How can school leaders transform and energize the learning that students experience in the classroom? What becomes possible when relevant and compelling learning lies at the heart of school decisions? This chapter offers a window into what a strong focus on the learning that matters for the lives that learners will live and can look like through the example of Beaconhills College. It proposes that leading learning that matters for our contemporary world involves tapping a complex ecology of influences and adopting a more distributed notion of leadership. Doing so engages the school community in creating a shared vision, setting directions, developing capacity, and sustaining progress.