ABSTRACT
Since its formation over fifteen years ago, the school improvement initiative, Improving the Quality of Education for All (IQEA), has moved beyond the shores of the UK to school systems around the world. These experiences have led the authors to reflect on what it is that they take for granted within school improvement. This process seems to have a potential for stimulating new ways of thinking. In order to illustrate what this involves, in this chapter the authors describe and reflect on their experience of school improvement initiatives in Portugal, the Republic of Moldova and Puerto Rico. They reflect on accounts of school improvement in three different countries in order to show how such experiences can draw attention to new possibilities for learning and development in the field. Their work is set within the framework of a school improvement initiative known as Improving the IQEA.
