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Towards a Moving School
Developing a Professional Learning & Performance Culture
Author(s): John Fleming & Elizabeth Kleinhenz
Publisher: ACER 2007
Part of the Educational Leadership Dialogues series, which teams up ACER researchers and experienced school principals to write short, evidence-based, practical guides on topics of significance, with the aim of highlighting significant areas of agreement and disagreement, or difference of focus.
In Towards a Moving School, the theory and practice behind schools with strong learning and performance cultures is examined. The book explores why and how schools become ‘moving’ schools, with teachers who have high levels of professional accountability, taking personal and collective responsibility for improving students’ learning and their own teaching methods. Moreover, it explains why and how principals and school leaders should understand and respect the complexity of teachers’ professional knowledge base and value their work accordingly, if they are to mobilise the collective capacity of their staff.
About the Authors
Dr Elizabeth Kleinhenz has many years experience as a teacher, administrator and curriculum consultant in the Victorian state education system. She is an ACER Senior Research Fellow and provides consultancy services in the areas of teaching standards, pre-service teacher education, teacher professional development and teacher evaluation.
John Fleming has taught in the Victorian government school system for nearly 30 years. He is Head of Precinct at the Berwick Campus of Haileybury College. He was previously Principal of Bellfield Primary School, where he was committed to changing the school's culture, and to dealing with significant literacy and numeracy challenges.
Towards a Moving School was launched by Professor Brian Caldwell on Thursday 18th October at the Melbourne University Bookshop. Brian stated that a copy of this "valuable resource should be in every Australian school."
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'Towards a Moving School gives the reader an extraordinarily rich and detailed account of the possibility to transform the learning culture of a school against what must have seemed extremely tough odds.'
Dr Susan Boyce
in Synergy Vol. 7, No. 1
'It aims to create a bridge between educational research and practice by teaming up educational researchers and experienced school principals. Education has never been good at bridging this gap.'
Gerry Tickell
Australian Educator, Autumn 2008