There was consensus among the interviewed principals and heads of school that they were witnessing one of the most engaging periods of reform ever experienced in Malta. They claimed that the Amended Education Act (2006) presented them with the shift in decision making that saw its inception a decade before, in the mid-1990s, as the Maltese Government sought to respond to the need to adopt a more collaborative and collegial culture that would bring about a paradigm shift in the style of governance and governing.