Instructional Leadership

1. Instructional Leadership

2. What is instructional leadership?
Instructional leadership is leadership that supports the
development of teaching and learning. It is referred to
using different names including pedagogical leadership,
learning-centered leadership, leadership for learning,
and student-centered leadership. These terms can be
considered under the broad umbrella of instructional
leadership and represent the specific and focused
practices in which school leaders engage to intentionally
support the development of effective teaching and
learning in schools.

3. Why is instructional
leadership
important?
Instructional leadership is the most
effective type of leadership practice
for improving student learning
outcomes. Syntheses of international
research on educational leadership
concur that instructional leadership has
demonstrated the strongest impact on
student learning.

4. School Based
Management (SBM)
• Is a decentralized management
initiative by developing power or
authority to school heads and students.
• Is a strategy to improve education by
transferring significant decision-
making authority from state and
district offices to individual schools.
• School heads, teachers and students
work together with community leaders,
and local government officials, and
other stakeholders to improve school
performance.
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5. Aim of SBM
• Empower every school to continuously
improve its performance in attaining
the desired out for students.
• Engage stakeholders in shared
decision-making;
• Lead staff together with other
stakeholders in identifying and
addressing school issues a concerns
that affect students outcomes.

6. School Improvement Plan
contains the profile of the school and the community,
problems and needs assessment, goals, objectives,
standards and targets, implementation plan, monitoring
and evaluation plan, communication and advocacy
plan, documentation and reporting to stakeholders, and
signatories.

8. Working with School Stakeholders