Professional standards for effective school leaders describe key roles, responsibilities and functions of school leaders together with key competences required of them to fulfil their responsibilities and achieve school goals. Accordingly, they define the primary work of school leaders which has relatively high impact on student learning success and the extent to which the work should be done so every student in school can succeed. They are “exemplary” professional standards that communicate minimum performance expectations to educators, professional associations, policy makers and the public about the work of effective educational leaders.
