The governance at both transnational, national and school level seem to be converging into a small number of forms as we see a tendency towards substituting hard forms of governance, that are legally binding, with soft forms based on persuation and advise. The OECD and the EU Commission use Œpeer pressure‚ and ŒOpen method of Coordination‚ that build on flexibility, reflexivity, agenda-setting, self-governance, comparisons and indicators. In many European educational systems we se that Governments are loosening and at the same time tightening the couplings to schools based on similar procedures and technologies. And in schools we see that principals are also focusing on self-governing technologies e.g. self-governing teacher teams. The paper will build on case studies in Danish schools, on discourse analysis and analysis of social technologies used in national and trans national governance initiatives. Important research questions are: Is it so, that governance and leadership is converging? What does the development mean for schools?