We know that there have been substantial changes to schooling over the past decade. We are moving from an industrial one size fits all approach to education to a neurolinguistic sociocultural individualised approach. In New Zealand in particular there is a constant call to address the underachievement of our most vulnerable learners. We cannot keep doing what we have done and expect different results. We must change. Osborne (2014) backs this up when he said that education “require schools to make significant changes to behaviours and norms that have endured for decades if not centuries” (p.3). But not everyone manages change well. With the increase in need for change, how can we lead and manage change effectively without teachers crumbling around us? As leaders there are many ways in which we can ensure that change is led and managed well. Osborne (2014) talks about adaptive and technical challenges. Technical cha...