Time is on our side An overwhelming issue we see in schools is there is not enough time. Teachers say it, managers say it. We hear excuses such as ‘Time is against us’ or ‘If only we had more time’. It has almost become the go-to excuse and a way of not digging deeper into…
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Richard Buckminster Fuller A Short Note on Hierarchy – and why we’re leaving it In my most favourite book Reinventing Organizations; which started my Journey for Teal School you find the above Buckminster…
If everyone had to think outside the box, maybe it was the box that needed fixing. Malcolm Gladwell What the dog saw Holacracy for Schools We’ve earlier written about the basics of Holacracy. But what would adopting Holacracy mean for a school in particular? A school adopting Holacracy as a structural system within which organisations…
Who is Accountable? “Surely there must be someone that is held accountable if the team’s result isn’t satisfactory?” “Everybody’s responsibility is nobody’s responsibility”. “I like to be able to send complaining parents to the principal instead of having to deal with them myself.” “Who should I call in a team when there’s no boss?” “How…
What is Holacracy? Holacracy is a new social technology for governing and operating an organisation, defined by a set of core rules distinctly different from those of a conventional governed organisation. Holacracy includes the following elements: A constitution which sets out the “rules of the game” and redistributes authority A new way to structure an…