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Changing and challenging students, schools, teachers, principals, countries and the world at large are the inevitable changes brought by chaos and uncertainty. Accordingly institutions fall and rise, when they fall they learn better to rise and rise again. The circumstances surrounding chaos and uncertainty have brought out new ideas and intelligent organizations. The most important factor in all countries is the children; how they should learn best or how best they should be taught and by whom remains profound, a question for reflection. Just because of this, school leaders are of great importance. The principals and teachers as well as stakeholders of the school can be the leaders to challenge the chaos and uncertainty to make the schools better places to learn, to practice and to teach. While the challenge with change and chaos is universal and permanent, the ways of challenging chaos and uncertainty can differ from one country to another. However up-to-date curriculums, self-organizing and intelligent schools remain the same. They are the schools, teachers, principals, parents and so on to continue challenging chaos and uncertainty at all times.
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Kayman, E.A. (2015). Improving School Leadership: A Way to Challenging Chaos. In: Erçetin, Ş., Banerjee, S. (eds) Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2013. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09710-7_45
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