Peter A Barnard is a retired school principal, and now runs his own international school consultancy. He has written five books on system change and is the acknowledged expert on mixed-age organization (vertical tutoring) and schools as systems.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSection One: The School as a Living SystemSystems, Purposes, and Problems –A First LookReacting to DisturbancesFrom Collaborative Professionalism to Social CollaborationThe Pusher, the Puller and Thinking DifferentlyThe School as a Living System: Disturbance and Fast FixesMore Disturbance –BullyingMental Health and SystemsThe School as a Viable SystemWicked problems and Parent PartnershipDistributed Leadership, Psychology and Collective Teacher EfficacySection Two: The Long and Winding Road to the Socially Collaborative SchoolA First Management TrawlFrom New Public Management (NPM) to Public Value Management (PVM)The Problem of DeliverologyTalent Management and a First Look at TeamsGoogle and Emerging ThinkingSchool CultureLearning from the Public SectorLearning Organizations and the Color TealThe Buurtzorg SchoolMoving from Complicated to Complex: the Strange Case of the Effect ListConcluding Remarks: Two Management Models and Systems ThinkingChapter SummariesAppendicesBibliographyAbout the Author

Socially Collaborative Schools will be a breath of fresh air for those looking to truly transform their school ethos and embrace the idea of community. Having made the switch to a vertical tutoring system, we can safely say Barnard is correct; we will never go back. Students and staff alike feel liberated by the changes and only now is it possible to see how restrictive the same-age system is.

Peter A Barnard is a retired school principal, and now runs his own international school consultancy. He has written five books on system change and is the acknowledged expert on mixed-age organization (vertical tutoring) and schools as systems.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSection One: The School as a Living SystemSystems, Purposes, and Problems –A First LookReacting to DisturbancesFrom Collaborative Professionalism to Social CollaborationThe Pusher, the Puller and Thinking DifferentlyThe School as a Living System: Disturbance and Fast FixesMore Disturbance –BullyingMental Health and SystemsThe School as a Viable SystemWicked problems and Parent PartnershipDistributed Leadership, Psychology and Collective Teacher EfficacySection Two: The Long and Winding Road to the Socially Collaborative SchoolA First Management TrawlFrom New Public Management (NPM) to Public Value Management (PVM)The Problem of DeliverologyTalent Management and a First Look at TeamsGoogle and Emerging ThinkingSchool CultureLearning from the Public SectorLearning Organizations and the Color TealThe Buurtzorg SchoolMoving from Complicated to Complex: the Strange Case of the Effect ListConcluding Remarks: Two Management Models and Systems ThinkingChapter SummariesAppendicesBibliographyAbout the Author

Socially Collaborative Schools will be a breath of fresh air for those looking to truly transform their school ethos and embrace the idea of community. Having made the switch to a vertical tutoring system, we can safely say Barnard is correct; we will never go back. Students and staff alike feel liberated by the changes and only now is it possible to see how restrictive the same-age system is.

Peter A Barnard is a retired school principal, and now runs his own international school consultancy. He has written five books on system change and is the acknowledged expert on mixed-age organization (vertical tutoring) and schools as systems.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSection One: The School as a Living SystemSystems, Purposes, and Problems –A First LookReacting to DisturbancesFrom Collaborative Professionalism to Social CollaborationThe Pusher, the Puller and Thinking DifferentlyThe School as a Living System: Disturbance and Fast FixesMore Disturbance –BullyingMental Health and SystemsThe School as a Viable SystemWicked problems and Parent PartnershipDistributed Leadership, Psychology and Collective Teacher EfficacySection Two: The Long and Winding Road to the Socially Collaborative SchoolA First Management TrawlFrom New Public Management (NPM) to Public Value Management (PVM)The Problem of DeliverologyTalent Management and a First Look at TeamsGoogle and Emerging ThinkingSchool CultureLearning from the Public SectorLearning Organizations and the Color TealThe Buurtzorg SchoolMoving from Complicated to Complex: the Strange Case of the Effect ListConcluding Remarks: Two Management Models and Systems ThinkingChapter SummariesAppendicesBibliographyAbout the Author

Socially Collaborative Schools will be a breath of fresh air for those looking to truly transform their school ethos and embrace the idea of community. Having made the switch to a vertical tutoring system, we can safely say Barnard is correct; we will never go back. Students and staff alike feel liberated by the changes and only now is it possible to see how restrictive the same-age system is.