Leadership Pathways is a programme run by the National College that aims to develop the skills needed for school leadership. I am not going to comment on the programme itself, but am going to reflect upon the main lessons I have learned about leading a whole school change. Firstly, the change aimed to create co-constructed off-timetable enquiry days. We wanted staff and pupils to learn together without the barriers normally associated with the curriculum. There are spin offs from the change, but this isn’t the appropriate place to announce them This wordle.net cloud summarises my learning. The diagram shows that people, learning, stakeholders and vision are at the heart of any whole school change. My own learning can be summarised with two cartoons and two images. I have used these before, and I have tried to note the original source. 1. The first learning point is that most conversations need to be planned and that when events don’t follow their planned trajectory, i