ABSTRACT

This chapter reports the interview with four pioneering leaders of Lesson Study (LS) in the UK. Jim OShea and Sue Teague are headteachers who have overseen the development of LS in their own schools, and the Gill Jordan, Jean Lang are the system leaders. The pre-existing collaborative arrangement prepares the ground for cross-school LS and the adoption of LS into local system-routines, local professional development and school improvement strategies and local publications, and even locally searchable online lesson studies. Successful leaders of LS within and across schools and school systems plan their approaches very carefully and give lesson studies a very high priority in the fabric and processes of the school or system that they are plumbed in. They understand costbenefits of the lesson studies and they amplify the impacts by sequencing the processes of alignment and by orchestrating what is learned, gained and shared through the lesson studies. Thus, they create even greater capacity for improving learning through LS.