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Educational Leaders Maximizing the Social Capital Benefits of Networks: Thoughts From an International Symposium

Fri, April 12, 11:25am to 12:55pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 115C

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

High quality teaching requires educators to engage in acts of continuous, collegial learning and to use this learning to improve their practice; with students benefitting as a result (Wagner, 2014). If such learning is to be truly effective, however, educators should be able to utilize and augment the social capital that exists within networks and communities (e.g. the new ideas or innovations such networks provide access to). A challenge for school leaders, therefore, is understanding how best to realise the potential of the the social capital resource present in education networks so as to improve the teaching quality in their schools. Our practice question for this symposium, therefore, is how can school leaders be supported to do this?

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