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==  Presentation by Tony Egan, Donn Osterlund, Cynthia Wissman, and Peter Yap

4 Big Ideas A. Hope is the guiding principle of educational innovation and success which gives schools a moral purpose in educating children. The moral purpose of schools is to provide a safe environment with a caring pastoral program for the emotional development of children, to foster a sense of service to the wider community beyond the school, to empower students and parents to function effectively in a democratic environment and to encourage a deeper understanding and the application of learning to new and novel situations.

B. While the world beyond school walls is complex and scary, it is even more so to ignore that world and cease learning or adapting to a constantly changing environment. Reculturing our schools is the most effective means of adapting to these changes.

C. Becoming a learning organization needs to include all constituencies served by the institution (students, parents, teachers, business, and governing bodies) in a //multifaceted approach// to reculturing the school.

D. Walk towards the light and engage/involve those resistant to change, the parent stakeholders, local community naysayers and above all, the students, to begin the process of reculturing the school into a learning organization.