leadership in particular a key factor in school effectiveness does not seem to figure strongly in evaluation frameworks the smarter schools national partnership school leadership development strategies project being undertaken by aitsl aims to develop a national approach to enhance school leadership capacity typically a school review is followed by the formulation of recommendations for improvement which the school is supposed to implement following the preparation of an improvement plan however the review team formed the view that the degree of followup by school review authorities was variable including within an educational jurisdiction depending on the capacity of regional networks