School leaders:

• Promote a culture of improvement, collaboration, innovation and creativity in learning, teaching and assessment
• foster a commitment to inclusion, equality of opportunity and the holistic development of each pupil
• Manage the planning and implementation of the school curriculum
• Foster teacher professional development that enriches teachers’ and pupils’ learning

School leaders:

• Establish an orderly, secure and healthy learning environment, and maintain it through effective communication
• Manage the school’s human, physical and financial resources so as to create and maintain a learning organisation
• Manage challenging and complex situations in a manner that demonstrates equality, fairness and justice
• Develop and implement a system to promote professional responsibility and accountability

School leaders:

• Communicate the guiding vision for the school and lead its realisation in the context of the school’s characteristic spirit
• Lead the school’s engagement in a continuous process of self-evaluation
• Build and maintain relationships with parents, with other schools, and with the wider community
• Manage, lead and mediate change to respond to the evolving needs of the school and to changes in education

School leaders:

• Critique their practice as leaders and develop their understanding of effective and sustainable leadership
• Empower staff to take on and carry out leadership roles
• Promote and facilitate the development of pupil voice, pupil participation, and pupil leadership
• Build professional networks with other school leaders