Peter A. Barnard has been involved in education for over forty years as a successful high school principal, international trainer, speaker, and writer. He is a passionate advocate of Vertical Tutoring (school organization based mixing all age-groups) as the managerial means of understanding and meeting the many challenges schools around the world face today. He is the author of The Systems Thinking School: Redesigning Schools from the Inside-Out, published by Rowman & Littlefield Education.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Way We Think We Think Isn’t the Way We Think We Think2. The Five Disciplines3. Complexity and Demand in Systems Thinking4. A Letter, Some Thoughts, and Some Math5. The Real Problem is the Way We See the Problem 6. Problems, Purpose, Energy, and Complexity7. The Systems Thinking Process to Seeing8. Background to the Checking Process9. Counter-intuitive Truths and the Nature of Leverage Points10. Learning in Loops11. Unlearning and Training a School 12. Psychology and Design for Learning13. Psychology as the Arbiter of Design14. Drawing up a Design Spec15. Learning from Finland and Other Jurisdictions16. Learning about Customers17. Managing the Change Process: the Implementation of Vertical Tutoring18. The Journey from Delusion to DesignBibliographyGlossary

Peter A. Barnard has been involved in education for over forty years as a successful high school principal, international trainer, speaker, and writer. He is a passionate advocate of Vertical Tutoring (school organization based mixing all age-groups) as the managerial means of understanding and meeting the many challenges schools around the world face today. He is the author of The Systems Thinking School: Redesigning Schools from the Inside-Out, published by Rowman & Littlefield Education.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Way We Think We Think Isn’t the Way We Think We Think2. The Five Disciplines3. Complexity and Demand in Systems Thinking4. A Letter, Some Thoughts, and Some Math5. The Real Problem is the Way We See the Problem 6. Problems, Purpose, Energy, and Complexity7. The Systems Thinking Process to Seeing8. Background to the Checking Process9. Counter-intuitive Truths and the Nature of Leverage Points10. Learning in Loops11. Unlearning and Training a School 12. Psychology and Design for Learning13. Psychology as the Arbiter of Design14. Drawing up a Design Spec15. Learning from Finland and Other Jurisdictions16. Learning about Customers17. Managing the Change Process: the Implementation of Vertical Tutoring18. The Journey from Delusion to DesignBibliographyGlossary

Peter A. Barnard has been involved in education for over forty years as a successful high school principal, international trainer, speaker, and writer. He is a passionate advocate of Vertical Tutoring (school organization based mixing all age-groups) as the managerial means of understanding and meeting the many challenges schools around the world face today. He is the author of The Systems Thinking School: Redesigning Schools from the Inside-Out, published by Rowman & Littlefield Education.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Way We Think We Think Isn’t the Way We Think We Think2. The Five Disciplines3. Complexity and Demand in Systems Thinking4. A Letter, Some Thoughts, and Some Math5. The Real Problem is the Way We See the Problem 6. Problems, Purpose, Energy, and Complexity7. The Systems Thinking Process to Seeing8. Background to the Checking Process9. Counter-intuitive Truths and the Nature of Leverage Points10. Learning in Loops11. Unlearning and Training a School 12. Psychology and Design for Learning13. Psychology as the Arbiter of Design14. Drawing up a Design Spec15. Learning from Finland and Other Jurisdictions16. Learning about Customers17. Managing the Change Process: the Implementation of Vertical Tutoring18. The Journey from Delusion to DesignBibliographyGlossary