Capacity Building for School Improvement

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At a time when there is a high demand for capacity building in schools, many administrators and practitioners find little if any empirical studies on how this can be achieved in practice. Through the eyes of an experienced researcher, schoolteacher, senior administrator and university lecturer, this book captures how a low decile school in New Zealand successfully built its capacity for improvement. Dr. Patricia Stringer allows the reader, who could be anyone with an interest in education, leadership and school development, to identify contextual problems and difficulties that limit capacity building and suggests pathways to overcome them. This is an easy to read and enjoyable book, but, one that digs deep into practice. The researcher spent over a year working with the staff, board and parents of this school discovering and recording authentic information about this school’s successful journey to success. For the researcher, this was an exciting experience; one that needs to be shared with the wider educational community. A must read book.

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Preliminary Material
Pages: i–xiii
Introduction
Pages: 1–5
Setting the Stage
Pages: 7–19
School Attribute
Vision
Pages: 21–33
School Attributes
Stakeholders as Change Agents
Pages: 35–44
School Attribute
School Culture
Pages: 45–55
School Attribute
Professional Development
Pages: 57–70
School Practice
Knowledge Production and Utilisation
Pages: 71–78
School Practice
‘Switching on’ Mentality
Pages: 79–86
School Practice: Division of Labour
Roles and Responsibilities
Pages: 87–93
Theory
Capacity Building
Pages: 95–114
End Piece
Pages: 115–117
Resource
Methodology
Pages: 119–123
References
Pages: 125–130
Educational Researchers and their students
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