This document discusses leadership dimensions that have a direct impact on student outcomes such as establishing goals and expectations, resourcing strategically, planning and evaluating teaching and curriculum, promoting teacher learning and development, and ensuring an orderly supportive environment. It provides examples of actions school leaders can take under each dimension and shows the effect size of each dimension based on research. The document emphasizes the importance of leadership in creating high performing schools that focus on teaching and learning.

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October 2014
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5. • develop staff commitment. 1
Establishing Goals
and Expectations
Effective goal setting requires leaders to:
• establish the importance of the goals.
• ensure the goals are clear.

6. 2
Resourcing
Strategically
• ensure sustained funding for pedagogical
priorities. When identifying and obtaining resources:
• use clear criteria aligned to pedagogical and
philosophical purposes.

7. 3Planning, coordinating,
and evaluating
teaching & the
curriculum
Leaders in high performing schools:
• promote collegial discussions of teaching
and how it impacts on student achievement.
• provide active oversight and coordination of
the teaching programme.
• observe in classrooms and provide feedback
that teachers describe as useful.
• ensure systematic monitoring of student
progress and use of assessment results for
programme improvement.

8. 4Promoting and
participating in
• provide useful advice about how to solve
teaching problems. teacher learning and
development
School leaders promoting and participating in
teacher learning and development:
• ensure an intensive focus on the teaching
learning relationship.
• promote collective responsibility and
accountability for student achievement and
well-being.

9. 5Ensuring an orderly
and supportive
environment
School leaders ensure and orderly and
supportive environment by:
• protecting teaching time.
• ensuring consistent discipline routines.
• identifying and resolving conflicts quickly
and effectively.

10. Leadership Dimensions with Direct Impact on Student Outcomes
Establishing goals & expecttions
Resourcing Strategically
Planning, coordinating & evaluating
Promoting & participating in teacher learning
Ensuring an orderly & supportive environment
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14. Leadership Dimensions with Direct Impact on Student Outcomes
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Resourcing Strategically
Planning, coordinating & evaluating
Promoting & participating in teacher learning
Ensuring an orderly & supportive environment
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Establishing goals & expecttions
Resourcing Strategically
Planning, coordinating & evaluating
Promoting & participating in teacher learning
Ensuring an orderly & supportive environment
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17. “Play is the highest
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48. “Tomorrow’s illiterate will not
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learned how to learn.”
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Alvin Toffler

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