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EI's policy on school leadership is essentially shaped by the various resolutions passed by the World Congress since 1995, particularly the 2004 and 2007 Congress resolutions on school principals and school leadership. These resolutions recognise the critical role played by school principals and other school leaders in the development of learning establishments and in the provision of quality education. They acknowledge the changing roles of school principals, particularly at secondary school level, and call for appropriate capacity building programmes designed to help school leaders cope with their new roles. Therefore, EI believes that school leaders need appropriate training and continuous professional development and support in order to cope with their ever changing roles. Working conditions for school leaders ought to be conducive and attractive.
Education International promotes democratic and collaborative leadership in schools. Such distributed leadership should involve teachers and other education employees and seek to improve teaching and learning. Therefore, pedagogical leadership is central to school leadership. School leaders and teachers should promote democracy, human rights and social justice in their schools and ensure safety and security for all their students, teachers and other education employees. Schools should be accessible to all, and offer the best opportunities to all, including children with disabilities, children from poor families and minority groups.
EI is committed to improving school leadership and works closely with international and regional organisations such as UNESCO, the World Bank, the OECD, European institutions and the Commonwealth Secretariat in this endeavour.