If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got

Last Wednesday I attended a Learning and Change Network meeting (a new national project designed to engender shared consciousness of the dilemmas faced in schools and possible solutions for each, making strong networks and utilising the knowledge in the room). It was a good start to a hopefully positive experience for myself as a leader of change and for staff and children at SHP -

A collaborative discussion started our first meeting and one part that struck me was the collective groups ability to break down the invisible barriers in our minds that often limit institutions such as schools (The dreaded "we've always done it this way" mentality). We briefly shared a couple of targets that we might set for our school and then posed deep questions for others. This brought me back to an interesting video I saw last week (thanks twitter PLN) - The purpose of school has changed in the last century and decade - have the schools changed to suit the purpose? or do we continue to do as we have always done?