Focus on developing school leaders’ preparedness to share responsibilities through openness, collaboration and partnerships.

The recent UNESCO GEM Report on leadership in education found that only about half of countries emphasize teacher collaboration in their leadership standards. And barely one third of leadership programmes reviewed focused on developing school leaders’ preparedness to share responsibilities through openness, collaboration and partnerships. Only a few countries highlight the value of teacher collaboration in teacher evaluations as well, acting as an incentive for teachers to embrace leadership roles. The Report called for policies on shared school leadership to be developed and implemented.