Breaking new ground by showing how to deploy all available resources - from finance to staff to culture to other organisations, Raising the Stakes provides an understanding of the breadth of resources that are needed in order to provide a quality education to all students.

Introduction to the Series Professor Alma Harris. Foreword Professor Jan Robertson. Preface Brian J. Caldwell and Jim M. Spinks 1. A New View of Self-Management 2. Core Principles for Next Practice 3. Alignment 4. Intellectual Capital 5. Governance and Social Capital 6. The funding of High Quality and High Equity 7. Next Practice in the Funding of Schools 8. A Student-Focused Planning Model 9. Student-Focused Planning in Action 10. Studies of Success 11. New Challenges for Policy and Practice. References. Appendices: 1. Principles of Resource Allocation for Student-Focused Self-Managing Schools 2. Self-Assessment of Knowledge Management 3. Self-Assessment of Governance 4. Self-Assessment of Resource Allocation 5. The Student Resource Package in Victoria