One has to be clear with what has to be done to steer everyone to help achieve the vowed academic goals of the institution. Couple this with effective people-management skills.
I guess every school wants to be known as academically excellent - capable of enabling its students to gain the necessary competencies and skills they need in their chosen fields of study. Every academic leader needs to know that it is not enough for the teachers to have well-crafted teaching-learning plans. The quality of the delivery and instruction inside the classroom is more important than the plan. This is where the challenge is.
Unless there is close supervision of what is going on inside the classroom, academic leaders may not be able to really get a good grasp of the real picture. In basic education, there is a risk that the expectation may not really be taking place.
Academic leadership is more than what one might think. There is real challenge.
