Global Education Episode 16: Principal partnerships in South Africa (original) (raw)

change and developing their organisations is something that's definitely required in education. So I started out by asking a group of principals whether one of them would partner with me and pilot this idea and test it with me. So Ridwan Samodien-the Principal of Kannemeyer Primary-was excited about the idea, and he and I became partners in April 2010. At that time it wasn't, there was no structure to the process-it was just two people trying to figure out how to be in partnership with each other across traditional, functional boundaries and sectoral boundaries. So it was an amazing experience for both of us. And so towards the end of that year, I said to a group of people: 'Why don't you all do this? Why don't we all go and work with a principal?' and then we can support them and ... let's see where this all goes.' And by December