Reflecting on leadership development

Leading for impact: Australian guidelines for school leadership development (Leading for impact), sets out evidence–based guidance to support a nationally coherent and standards-based approach to leadership development in all jurisdictions and schools. To assist schools and systems/sectors to reflect on their approach to leadership development, AITSL has developed two reflection tools, one for use by systems/sectors and the other by schools. The reflection tools bring the recommendations within Leading for impact to life by articulating what schools and jurisdictions can do at increasing levels to develop leadership capacity. By demonstrating progression across the rubric for each action, the school or jurisdiction can see what it looks like to improve their approach to leadership development and contribute to developing a pool of aspiring leaders across the education system. The tools will support users to reflect on their organisation’s leadership development approaches against the recommendations provided in Leading for impact.