School leadership
This policy was consolidated into the Professional learning, performance and accreditation policy under the 2023 Policy and procedure review program on 30/08/2024.
Refer to the School leadership development procedures for instructions.
Document history
2024 Aug 30 – School leadership policy was consolidated with the Professional learning, performance and accreditation policy and removed from the policy library. Approved by the Director, School Leadership Institute.
2022 Oct 17 - updated policy statement to include link to new role description for assistant principals and head teachers. Added new implementation document, Middle Leader Role Description.
2022 Aug 23 - updated links in policy statement.
2021 Oct 11 - update to implementation document: NSW Public School Leadership and Management Credentials Guidelines - Incorporated FAQs into the main document, updated terminology for elective professional learning in section 3, and reworded section 5.2. Moved from Professional Learning policy to School Leadership policy (previously published under PD-2004-0017-02).
2021 Jun 29 - Policy name changed from Leading and Managing the School to School Leadership; policy statement revised to comply with policy library template (previous policy content was a statement of key accountabilities for principals in the effective educational leadership and management of NSW public schools). Previous policy content was reviewed and put into an implementation document 'Principal role description'. A second implementation document also added 'Deputy principal role description'.
2020 Sep - updated contact details only.
2020 Jun - updated contact details and made minor style and editing changes.
Superseded documents
None