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- Strengthening school leadership to improve teaching and learning is one of the strategies put forward to achieve target 4.c of the Education 2030 Agenda, which addresses the need to increase the supply of qualified teachers (UNESCO, 2016; United Nations, 2015).
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Oct 31, 2022 · School leadership is correctly identified as a key strategy to improve teaching and learning toward SDG4 (the Incheon Declaration and Framework for Action adopted by the World Education Forum 2015). A specific task assigned to school leadership is an increase in the supply of qualified teachers (UNESCO, 2016 ).
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School leadership aims to get the best out of teachers and students. It can fall under either transformational or instructional/pedagogical leadership (Day and Sammons, 2014; UNESCO, 2018). Transformational leadership pertains to big-picture vision and structural reorganization, while instructional leadership refers to establishing the importance o...
Lack of established qualifications for school leaders. Many countries lack formalized policy guidance on the requirements to become a principal or head teacher (Tournier et al., 2019; UNESCO, 2019b). In these cases, school leadership positions often go to senior teachers who may lack training or preparation for these roles (Education Commission, 20...
School leaders are vital to promoting equity. School leaders drive the culture and focus of schools, and can be instrumental in promoting school equality and equity (UNESCO, 2017). They have an enormous impact on how vulnerable student populations receive instruction (Spillane, Paquin Morel, and Al-Fadala, 2019; UNESCO, 2018). By properly selecting...
Develop national standards for school leadership. To better develop expectations for school leaders, policy-makers can establish codified standards, expectations, and recruitment strategies (Day and Sammons, 2014; OECD, 2020; UNESCO, 2018, 2019a). High-performing systems tend to integrate leadership standards and recruitment into their overall visi...
A holistic and coherent curricular approach will require alignment between curriculum content, assessment, teacher training, as well as school leadership and management.
This technical brief describes why school leadership matters for quality education and the evidence-based approach VVOB takes to introducing and embedding school leadership in developing countries.
Improve ECCE curricula and pedagogy. Singapore’s Nurturing Early Learners Framework was revised in 2022 to provide updated guidelines for quality teaching and learning with a stronger emphasis on developing children’s values, social and emotional competencies and learning dispositions. Make ECCE educators and caregivers a transformative force.
A key strategy in the vision for education to achieve SDG4, the Education 2030 Incheon Declaration and Framework for Action adopted by the World Education Forum 2015, is to “Strengthen school leadership to improve teaching and learning”.
The ‘middle tier´ of education systems, or those professionals working between the school and central level, may offer a unique opportunity to facilitate collaboration, broker knowledge, scale innovations and provide instructional direction to school level practitioners.
