to consider the school as an ecosystem The system can be tracked and patterns established For example if a school is seen as system in change processes when a new idea is introduced into a school system then it would be possible to identify the system of thinking/making meaning and acting that enabled and or prohibited change The fourth option sees the school is on collective sense-making practices . Reform programs in sense-making organizations are initiated through collaborative work on the simultaneous construction of new ways of talking about what is happening