OER4Schools/LfL/5 principles expanded

Focus on Learning

1. Everyone is a learner
2. Learning relies on the effective interplay of social, emotional and cognitive processes
3. The efficacy of learning is highly sensitive to context and to the differing ways in which people learn
4. The capacity for leadership arises out of powerful learning experiences
5. Opportunities for leadership enhance learning

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Related ORBIT Wiki Resources	The 5 LfL principles, The 5 LfL principles expanded, The 5 LfL principles expanded with questions
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Conditions for Learning

1. Cultures nurture the learning of everyone
2. Everyone has opportunities to reflect on the nature, skills and processes of learning
3. Physical and social spaces stimulate and celebrate learning
4. Safe and secure environments enable everyone to take risks, cope with failure and respond positively to challenges
5. Tools and strategies are used to enhance thinking about learning and the practice of teaching

Learning Dialogue

1. Practice made explicit, discussable and transferable
2. Active, collegial inquiry focussing on the link between learning and leadership
3. Coherence through sharing of values, understandings and practices
4. Factors that inhibit and promote learning are examined and addressed
5. Link between leadership and learning is a concern for everyone
6. Different perspectives explored through networking with researchers and practitioners

Shared Leadership

1. Structures support participation in developing learning communities
2. Shared leadership symbolised in day-to-day flow of activities
3. Everyone encouraged to take a lead as appropriate to task and context
4. Everyone’s experience and expertise is valued and drawn upon as resources
5. Collaborative activity across boundaries of subject, role and status are valued and promoted

Mutual Accountability

1. Systematic approach to self-evaluation embedded at every level
2. Focus on evidence and its congruence with core values
3. Shared approach to internal accountability is a precondition of external accountability
4. National policies recast in accordance with school's core values
5. Choosing how to tell own story while taking account of political realities
6. Continuing focus on sustainability, succession and leaving a legacy