Magazine - ESHA

HIGH PERFORMANCE SCHOOLS
be connected with the stakeholders who are involved in strategy
formulation and realization. The distinctive identity of the school
will be developed in consistency with ambition, core values and
core quality. High performance Schools are the key to economic
growth, wellness and health and will focus on student achievement
on future lifetime skills. Excellent basic skills, ownership for the
learning process, problem orientated and solving thinking, be able
to corporate and a healthy lifestyle based on context and values.
• Learning, research and empowerment
In High Performance Schools the development of the whole school
organization leads the changing process and not the personal and/
or individual development of the teachers. School leadership and
governance sees the quality of teaching and learning as its core pur-
pose. This implies the deployment of time, energy and resources to
enhance confi dence in the quality of teaching and learning and the
focus on achievement, i.e. minimising in-school variation. Learning
and working are integrated to support the vision of the organisation.
To realize High Performance School status the entire organization
48 ESHA MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2011