Possibilities

Having read Page, Montiel-Overall and Todd as part of Module 5, I am quite excited by the possibilities that exist for developing an ILSC in the two schools I am connected to at the moment. The process of change is happening in both, but it really needs some commitment from the school leaders to make it get off the ground. CLMT needs an overworked TL to get a lift and some support for them to move on and get collaboration happening in more than one unit per term . This might mean some input at an executive level and even better the development of an IL policy for the whole school.

For St GGHS it needs the principal to step further along the collaboration line and explore how a traditional school can make the leap that will give it the edge they are looking for.

Montiel-Overall in her writing has given a series of markers or models that can be used to explain to a school executive the benefits of an ILSC. Page has ideas that I think will transfer well in the system that I work in. Start small is a very good way of thinking when you are starting something new. I am looking forward to putting these ideas into practice.