ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book addresses most intractable problems that facing schools today. Given the complexity of some of these challenges, and the seemingly endless number of approaches they invite, it is perhaps no wonder that change, in many areas, remains impossible to force through on anything other than a school-by-school basis. Schools seem to be anathema to order, to predictable outcomes, and to carefully designed strategic development plans. They are noisy, chaotic places where things are broken and lives repaired. Strangely, it is because of this that so many teachers do not leave the classroom, and could not imagine working in an open-plan office where the only noises are the tapping of keyboards and the occasional gurgle from the water dispenser.
