Transformative Schools
Innovate . Elevate . Rejuvenate . Restore .
Partnering with school leaders to design relational frameworks, strengthen leadership practice, and build cultures where wellbeing and engagement can thrive.
A Blueprint for Relational Schools
Every school operates through a set of visible and invisible structures - leadership practices, expectations, and systems that shape how people relate, respond, and work together.
When these structures are relationally aligned, they create clarity, trust, and shared responsibility. When they are not, even the most committed educators can find themselves working against the very culture they hope to build.
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Relational culture does not emerge through intention alone. It is shaped by the coherence between leadership, systems, and everyday interactions.
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This insight sits at the heart of my book, The Relational School, which explores how relational culture can be intentionally designed through leadership, systems, and everyday practice.
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When relational conditions are coherent, schools move beyond reacting to behaviour and toward building environments where trust, accountability, and engagement can flourish.
- Sue Chandler, Founder, Transformative Schools
PARTNERSHIPS WITH SCHOOLS
Transforming relational culture requires more than professional learning alone. It involves sustained engagement with leadership, clarity of purpose, and careful alignment between values, systems, and everyday practice.
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Through tailored partnerships, I work alongside school leaders to support the design, implementation, and sustainability of relational culture.
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This work is shaped by the principles outlined in The Relational School and adapted to reflect each school’s unique context, priorities, and leadership goals.
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The focus is not simply on introducing new initiatives, but on strengthening the structures, leadership practices, and shared understanding that allow relational culture to be sustained over time.
Transformative Schools has enjoyed partnering with the following schools and organisations:
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ABOUT
Sue Chandler
Sue Chandler is an education consultant, restorative mediator, and author of The Relational School, partnering with school leaders to design relational frameworks, strengthen leadership practice, and build cultures where wellbeing and engagement can thrive.
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Sue works alongside schools to move beyond behaviour management and fragmented wellbeing initiatives toward coherent relational cultures grounded in safety, care, and shared responsibility.
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Her work focuses on designing relational engagement and wellbeing frameworks, building educator capability, supporting leadership through coaching and reflection, and providing specialist restorative mediation in complex relational situations where careful, independent facilitation is required.
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As a restorative mediation facilitator, Sue draws on years of practice supporting schools through sensitive and high-stakes relational breakdowns involving staff, students, families, and leadership teams. Her structured approach prioritises psychological safety, dignity, and relational integrity - enabling constructive dialogue and sustainable resolution.
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Drawing on extensive experience across teaching, educational leadership, conflict resolution, and relational practice implementation, Sue brings both strategic clarity and practical guidance - supporting schools to align their values, systems, and everyday interactions.
Sue’s work is grounded in the understanding that culture is shaped by design - through the structures, decisions, and interactions that leaders attend to every day.
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