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A community committed to inside-out change in education. Open-source research, frameworks and tools for schools leading change from within.
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Browse the libraryVision paper
Nets and Anchors
How can schools build lasting relationships with the communities they serve? Read the vision paper and explore nine case studies.
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Change model
The Double Diamond
Four moves to help your school community understand a challenge, agree what needs to change and test what works.
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Working paper
Schools Know Best
What changes when a coach works with the whole school as an organisation? This paper looks at what the research says.
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Commissioned paper
Beyond the Quick Fix
Dr Kathryn Taylor examines why school initiatives lose momentum and what helps change take hold.
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Open meeting notes
The Forum notes
Read what educators have been discussing at the Work Collaborative Forum, from leading change to working with outside expertise.
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Find free papers, practical tools and notes from the Work Collaborative Forum.
Visit the libraryThe antidote to outsourced decision-making is organisational confidence.
Work Collaborative brings together a community committed to inside-out change in education. As a research and advocacy group, we empower schools to lead change for themselves as a community. We believe that the antidote to the outsourcing of decision-making is organisational confidence. This is our North Star.
The Double Diamond Change Workbook
A practical, step-by-step workbook to guide your school through a change process using the Double Diamond model from Change Starts Here. Yours to download, free.
The wisdom for creating meaningful change already exists within our communities. Our job isn't to bring expertise in. It's to help schools recognise the expertise they already have.Work Collaborative mission
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