School leaders can free themselves from past mindsets and create the schools of the future, writes David Loader and Brian Caldwell.

Today's school leaders are required to deliver a new national curriculum, administer a comprehensive national testing program, respond to political demands for unprecedented transparency, and be accountable for learning outcomes. Schools are being asked to continue doing what they are doing, but do it more effectively. But is this really the answer, more of the same? Our tendency is to begin with the present and make incremental change to existing practices when what may be more appropriate is major change associated with a paradigm shift in thinking about the nature and processes of teaching...