Level 2 emphases the role of school leaders in the capacity building of teachers and others adults in
the school, what someone brings to the role of school leader, and utilisation by school leaders of various
views of leadership. The capacity building emphasis comes primarily from the Victorian cases from
Gurr and Drysdale see [25,44–46], and draws on the research of King and Newmann [60] and Mitchell
and Sackney [61] to make sense of how successful school leaders focus much of their energy on
developing people. School capacity is viewed as comprising four areas of personal, professional,
organisational and community capacity, with each element having at least four areas. Whilst focussed
on developing teachers, it includes development of other staff, parents, and community members.
Capacity building is one of three teacher-level predictor variables in Mulford and Silins’ [51] model,
and the only one that impacts on all three of the student outcomes (academic achievement, social
development and empowerment).