Education Reimagined: Leadership for Transformation

Numerous crises are going on in our world today: health, climate change, and access to quality education, and this was already true before COVID-19. These crises affect how we teach, what we teach, and the skills we’ll need now and in the future.

As a result, there is a growing global movement for educational transformation and an international agreement that young people need to be prepared for a complex and dynamic future. Because of this, we require a transformation agenda rather than a reform strategy. We must reconsider the design of what we teach and how we teach, by involving educators and learners as co-designers of learning.

Since 2017, WISE Agile Leaders of Learning Innovation Network (ALL-IN) has had the privilege of bringing together a global community of people who share a commitment to supporting schools and systems in their transitions toward resilient and future-thriving learning environments that maximize learner outcomes and wellbeing. 

At this moment, when education leaders, policymakers, and funders in every context are making decisions about how to transform learning and education, we want to offer solutions from the ground up. 

Education Reimagined: Leadership for Transformation introduces 23 brief case studies with lessons learned, research evidence and findings. They showcase innovation in leadership, policy and practice on how emerging models teaching and learning can be developed and led from the inside-out—and demonstrate the power of distributed empowerment and transformative leadership.

In this publication, we offer a transformational agenda focusing on three key themes: 

• Emerging leadership skills and capabilities 
• Teacher and team leadership
• The power of networks and clusters for transformational change

All of the case studies and findings of this report are tailored for education leaders or stakeholder interested in outlining a transformation path in their country or educational authority, such as a state or district. It is also intended for civil society groups, donors, academics, and anyone interested in national development via educational leadership development and the role of innovation.