Flexible Planning: A Key to the Management of Multiple Innovations

Abstract

Schools in England and Wales are currently faced with the implementation of a plethora of change. On the basis of recent exploratory research the author, a lecturer in the National Development Centre for Educational Management and Policy at the University of Bristol, proposes a model of flexible planning for the management of multiple innovations. Such an approach, he suggests, can help schools to cope with an increasingly turbulent environment in a way in which a procedure which over-relies upon the production of annual development plans may not.