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leadership. With the right professionals, equipped with innovative
materials and sharing the responsibilities for the results achieved
the organisational structure will be analysed if it is focussed on
the development of lifetime skills for a future global labour market
perspective. Transformative leadership involves rethinking every
aspect of the school’s structures and processes to ensure that they
are directly focused on enabling excellent teaching and learning.
Phase 5. Focus on future” global learning”
For the last phase to grow from “excellent” to “high performance”,
an innovative leadership style will be required to prepare teach-
ing professionals for exchanging ideas and becoming involved in
“global learning” – i.e. becoming world class practitioners. With
the application of real-life-cases students will develop their 21st
century skills that will be focussed on reading, numeracy and writ-
ing also on …….7 (C’s). In these phase schools are securing active
collaboration within and between schools to ensure that the best
practices and resources are available to all.
Literature data show that the direction and the road to better student
achievements is infl uenced by 6 crucial aspects. These aspects
are the fundaments to create High Performance Schools; a 21st
century learning centre where the high student achievement is the
highest goal for students, teachers and leaders. The six aspects
focus on the following priorities:
HIGH PERFORMANCE SCHOOLS
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