Sustainable School Transformation: An Inside-Out School Led Approach explores how we can best build a truly world class education system. It presents a theoretical and practical case for an alternative approach that combines the rigour of traditional 'top-down' accountability models with the engagement and buy-in of school led 'inside-out' approaches - a combination which can be applied to any school in any context internationally. David Crossley and a range of practitioners and academics draw on their extensive experience of past approaches to school improvement in the UK and US. Rather than reject 'top-down' accountability models, they explore new ways of developing them alongside 'inside-out' school led approaches that really do motivate those in our schools who in the final analysis have to deliver the aspirations of politicians and our wider societies for all our young people. The book is based on the premise that Peter Drucker's notion of addictive achievement, discussed in relation to students in Post Capitalist Society, applies to staff and schools too, and if we want to build a truly world class system it will only be achieved through the motivation and resultant efforts of all those in our schools.

Notes on Contributors AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Becoming World Class, David Crossley (Education Consultant, UK)1. From Theory to Practice2. Leadership and Collaboration3. What should a world class curriculum look like? Part II: Ideas into Action4. Innovative Examples from English Schools: Whose curriculum is it anyway? Judith Judd (Times Educational Supplement, UK) with John Dunford (Whole Education, UK)5. Technology and Change, Mark Grundy (Shireland Collegiate Academy, UK), Kirsty Tonks (Shireland Collegiate Academy, UK) and Karine George (Westfields Junior School, UK)6. Exploring System-Wide Change: The New York City Izone, David Jackson (The Innovation Unit, UK) with Jonathan de Suasmarez (Romsey School, UK)7. Exploring System-Wide Change - The Academies of Nashville, Jay Steele (Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, USA) and Michelle Wilcox (Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, USA) with Marc Hill (Nashville Chamber of Commerce, USA)Part III: Creating an Empowered System8. Autonomy and Professional Courage: Emotional and Political Aspects of Change, Pat Collarbone (Education Consultant, UK) and Simon Edkins (Education Consultant, UK)9. Approaches to Accountability, Jeff Hale (Education Consultant, UK) with James Park (Human Scale Education, UK)10. Being Data Informed Rather than Data Driven, David Crossley (Education Consultant, UK) with James Park (Human Scale Education, UK)11. Exploring Evolving Middle or Mediating Tiers and Emerging School and Stakeholder Networks in Five Localities in England, Jonathan Crossley-Holland (Education Consultant, UK) with David Carter (Cabot Learning Federation, UK)12. Making the Most of the Teachers We Have: A Case Study, Chris Holmwood (Shenley Brook End School, UK)13. Making Sure Every Student Matters, Alan Yellup ( (Wakefield City Academy, UK)14. Summary: Ten Key Ways Forward, David Crossley (Education Consultant, UK)ReferencesIndex