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Achieving Sustainable Outcomes Through Organisational Learning: A System Approach to Building School CapacityGwen Sands. This paper describes a model for organisational learning, which has been developed in conjunction with a systems approach to primary school leadership. The conceptualisation of this model for organisational learning is an integral component to a model of primary school leadership that is directed towards creating a sustainable school culture that focuses on continual improvement and quality student outcomes across a broad range.
This paper will describe how organisational learning developed within a systems approach links student outcomes, teacher practice and performance development of staff in a context of overall school performance. Descriptive analysis and data will be presented which will show how reconceptualizing organisational learning in a performance context has greatly enhanced a school’s capacity to improve student outcomes. This paper has a practical orientation in its presentation of a story of a school. The practical knowledge which is dynamic, broadly based in experiential life and open to change, is underpinned by research and theory of a social constructivist nature. Presenters Gwen Sands
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Principal Cooroora State College Primary Campus Education Queensland Gwen is Principal of the Primary Campus of Cooroora State College, a P-10 school on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Special interests and areas of research and development include educational leadership in primary schools, and curriculum issues (particularly literacy) for early and middle childhood.
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