Changing+the+Context

**Changing the Context**
 * Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) of literacy performance
 * Study of literacy performance of 265,000 fifteen year olds in 32 countries

“PISA shows…that two students with the same family characteristics going to different schools – one with higher and one with lower socio-economic profile – could expect to be further apart in reading literacy than two students from different backgrounds going to the same school.” (OECD, 2000)
 * Change the context; change the behaviour.

 **Context Does Matter….**
 * The power of the “little things” – Tipping Point (Gladwell, 2000)
 * If in a context where others display caring behaviours to ensure student success, we, too, will focus our energy on this imperative

**The Principal's Job Description:** //To Help Change Immediate Context//

  **Build on Our Past Experiences with Change** Activity -

Think-Pair-Share