Systems and Global Intelligence.

Systems thinking is usually taught as an abstract academic skill, something students practice on a textbook diagram, when it is in fact the most practical lens available for understanding why a school behaves the way it does, as one interconnected system nested inside district, community, and global systems larger than itself. This module applies that lens directly to a teacher's own school, building the capacity to trace how a change in one part of the system ripples, often unpredictably, through the rest of it.

• Why a school functions as one interconnected system rather than a set of separate departments.
• How a change in one part of a school system tends to ripple, often unpredictably, through the rest.
• What global and community-level systems this teacher's own school is nested inside, whether acknowledged or not.
• A first attempt at mapping this school as a system, rather than as a list of separate programs.
• What becomes visible about a persistent school problem once it's read as a systems issue rather than an isolated one.