Policies and guidelines

Content around policies, laws, acts, guidelines affecting school support systems. Could include ideas on policy reforms, new guidelines and regulations, actors working for reform in policies, critical views of existing policies and guidelines, rules and regulations informing the work of organizations and institutions in the school support system.

Policies, guidelines, acts, rules and regulations are regulatory aspects that govern how schools and school support systems work. These are essential knowledge for all leaders and administrators to understand and to practice within their organizations. Educational leadership also sees policy work as reformative – i.e. policy changes has the capacity to bring about changes in the way that school systems can be led and managed. Hence knowledge about concepts as well as interventions around policy are important areas within educational leadership.

DIET pink book, DIET restructuring recommendations, RTE Act, NPE, Leadership development guidelines, SIEMAT guidelines