Lessons Learned from the Case Study

The aim of becoming a continually reinventing school is not for the faint-hearted. Yet, we believe this is what school communities need to do in order to meet the needs of their contemporary and future students and communities. The intention of the case study school was to become a continually reinventing and self-improving school, based on its enduring values. Segal (2005), citing Gerstner (2002), described this as 'building a culture of restless renewal through constantly questioning the status quo' (p. 55). Continual reinventing requires a school to live in and with an ongoing paradox: to turn the notion of perpetual learning and change into a stable set of assumptions, or a culture (Schein, 1992).