Promising strategies for spreading innovative learning environments

This chapter provides an overview of the strategies and initiatives that were contributed to the “Implementation and Change” strand of the ILE study. Altogether, 26 participating systems, including countries, provincial states, foundations and networks, submitted promising examples of change strategies. Each is described briefly in turn. The chapter then identifies underlying threads summarised as a series of C’s: Culture change, which is more important but much harder to realise than surface change Clarifying focus, as trying to do all at once risks disjointed diffusion and dilution Capacity creation, consisting of knowledge (including research), professional learning and the capacity to act on that knowledge and learning Collaboration and co-operation, for collaborative professionalism is assumed in many strategies as are networks and professional learning communities Communication technologies and platforms as prominent parts of professional practice and change strategies and Change agents, i.e. specific specialist roles providing local drive, expertise and influence.