Six Phases of School Development
The Six Phases of School Development describe the evolution of a school from an industrial model of education to future-ready. Learning for the future happens best in a certain type of school, and the methods of teaching, learning and assessment that have been the norm for over a century are now redundant. Schools must evolve into a new future, and how this evolution happens is described across the Six Phases.
These six phases describe the evolution of schools’ operating systems across three broad stages with three transformational stages. They demonstrate how schools have operated in the past can be displaced by a series of interconnected interventions. These interventions enable schools to leapfrog into a preferred future of student progress, achievement and organisational excellence.
The three broad stages that exist in the evolution of a school are Fragmented, Formalised and Focused, and this evolution is characterised by continuous improvement. Continuous improvement in an organisation manifests in two forms: incremental improvement and transformation. In the transformation stages the priorities for improvement that form the foundation for a new and better way of optimising student progress and achievement are made explicit. Transformation disrupts current best practice and displaces or absorbs it in an utterly new way of ‘seeing’ and operating that is exponentially better.
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Further information about how the Six Phases of School Development are applied within the Indigo Schools Framework can be found in the Primer on our Resources Page, or please email info@indigoschools.net if you’d like to learn how the Phases can be successfully used within your school.