Considering countries’ policy frameworks and practices on the ground, policy makers need to find ways to establish feedback as a core element of appraisal itself, channels for appraisal to effectively feed into professional development and meaningful professional development opportunities to ultimately improve school leadership practices and behaviours. Considering the difficulty of attracting qualified candidates and retaining successful school leaders over time in many contexts, some research suggests that appraisal may constitute one policy lever for creating incentives to facilitate the recruitment and retainment of effective school leaders (Pont et al., Some school districts in the United States have established appraisal procedures that include financial rewards as an integral part of the use of appraisal results.