... capacity. This study uses Malen and Rice’s (2004) dual dimensions of capacity building to look at how district and charter leaders responded to the demands of Michigan’s Partnership Model, a district-based approach to school turnaround, focusing on how they tried to build capacity in response to the policy...

... Continuous school improvement Rural school leadership Capacity building Profound knowledge Research–practice partnerships Demands for higher levels of student performance challenge all school leaders to improve teaching and learning practices in their schools. These demands are often accompanied...

...Stephen Dinham; Frank Crowther; Alan Bain; Allan Walker; Anissa Chan Purpose The paper aims to describe the application of theoretical principles derived from a study of self‐organisation and complex systems theory and their application to school‐based capacity building to support planned change...