School leadership and school quality in secondary education in Rwanda

This paper has been prepared as part of Leaders in Teaching initiative. It explores whether leadership practices are associated with school quality measures in the Rwandan context. The paper is organised as follows: in the first section, we examine school leaders’ personal and professional backgrounds. In the second section, we present the three school quality proxies used and the methodological approach of this paper. In the third and final section, we investigate school leadership practices through the lens of the REB (Rwanda Basic Education Board) school leadership standards and examine how they are associated with our measures of school quality.