a middle school principal has transformed the practices and plans in her school by studying the staffing models and more flexible timetables of a school in south australia seeing in this part of the ciel programme is leading to deeper respect and to new possibilities the call for disruptive innovation of education systems where schools as we have known them cease to exist has a certain appeal for those frustrated with the seeming snail s pace of system change others urge systems to focus intensely and consistently on improving the quality of teaching and learning with a few strong and carefully constructed goals