Developing schools into learning schools

"This is not about ‘revolutionary’ change, but rather about ‘evolutionary’ change – starting from where you are, experimenting, adapting and learning by doing – with all changes based on evaluated evidence." (Collarbone, 2015, p. 13) Schools today are required to prepare students for a changing world. In this climate of fast change, teachers are urged to become ‘knowledge workers’ (Schleicher, 2015) and to mediate vast amounts of information and knowledge in helping their students become better learners. There is some evidence from work in the international arena (OECD, 2013) that some traditional models of organising learning in schools may struggle to meet the needs of learners. However, in many English schools, both the curriculum and pedagogical approaches to classroom learning are innovative and very relevant to learner's needs. In this article I show how the constituents of ‘learning organisations’ fit with the notion of ‘learning schools’ and propose