Rationale

Education Queensland is committed to provisions that ensure all young Queenslanders have a right to and receive a quality education. The Queensland Academy for Creative Industries has a vision and commitment based on the following model.

Our Academy Vision

In order to enhance and support quality learning, a responsible behaviour plan for students has been formulated which we believe:

• Provides the opportunity for all students to learn
• Ensures the safety of staff and students
• Assists students who may exhibit challenging behaviour to accept responsibility for themselves and their actions
• Provides a social framework allowing every student to learn and succeed.

The Queensland Academy for Creative Industries will create a supportive school environment that addresses social and behavioural contexts holistically developing the student.

School beliefs about behaviour and learning

Learning | Environment | Individual character | Rights and responsibilities | Points of difference and outcomes sought

Learning

For a young person to thrive in the 21^st century and to achieve wellbeing, we believe that a young person needs to develop skills and capabilities to realise 10 interrelated educational outcomes.*

At the Queensland Academy for Creative Industries we seek to create an educational environment most likely to guarantee student success in the future. This will be nurtured by learning which is higher level and designed to produce the most effective and equitable learning outcomes.

• Embracing a personal value system compatible to 21^st century realities. This paradigm, called "Planetism", will determine the nature of future markets, industries and ethics.
• Being a leader of self and others - shaping one's own life, career and wellbeing. Being a pathmaker rather than a pathtaker.
• Developing a successful career path which comprises job making rather than job taking. This involves passion, insight, foresight and hindsight.
• Being a lifelong, learning-driven and just in time learner, adapting easily to change and seeing learning as an essential part of life.
• Being an enterprising innovative person who continuously develops one's own creativity and enterprise and respects it in others.
• Becoming a successful 21^st century adult. This includes initiating successful interdependent relationships and participating in communities.
• Being aware, respectful, tolerant and supportive of intercultural and religious diversity. This includes understanding other cultures, including languages.
• Understanding that 21^st century economic success will be based on the core forms of human creativity: the arts and humanities, the social and natural sciences and the technologies.
• Comprehending that 21^st century success requires that individual rights be balanced with responsibilities to others, to the community, the environment, and the planet and future generations.
• Knowing the implications of and the opportunities offered by the creation of a 21^st century society which is sustainably prosperous, with sustainable development, consumption, production and lifestyles.

_{* Ellyard, P. Preparing the next Generation for 21^st Century Success. Melbourne. 11/09/2006}

Environment

Creativity flourishes in a unique kind of social environment: one that is stable and secure enough to allow continuity of effort yet diverse and broad-minded enough to nourish creative investigation and thought.

We believe and recognise that "creative people and knowledge workers respond well to organisations with solid values, clear rules, open communications, good working conditions and fair treatment." ( Florida , R. The Rise of the Creative Class. 2003)

We believe a learning environment which harnesses ideas and creativity includes:

• flexibility
• openness
• intrinsic motivation
• readiness for change.

This environment mobilises creative and innovative people.