Atai Karim

High Achieving Schools of Aga Khan University-examination Board: Leadership Roles and Practices Atai Karim

The School Leadership can play a significant role both directly and indirectly through pedagogical and distributed leadership for high student achievement. The School Leadership can support high student achievement by reinforcing and articulating school's vision, goals, providing resources, building capacity, empowering staff members, developing plan, leading implementations and restructuring the school. The School Leadership can also support high student achievement by ensuring effective teaching, learning and accountability and recognizing school's achievement. Moreover, the factors that can facilitate School Leadership in the enactment of their roles for high student achievement includes high quality human resources, team work, school infrastructure, support from educational institutions, support from school executive board/committee and community and inter schools collaboration. Finally, As a teacher and school leader I believe that the success of students and achievement of schools depends on the roles and the best practices of School Leadership.