various other countries indicated that underperformance entails the possibility to dismiss a school leader or to initiate a separate procedure that may lead to a school leader s dismissal in the case of his or her continued underperformance this includes various states and territories in australia belgium flemish community various provinces and territories in canada chile performance appraisal israel isced level and partially isced level new zealand and northern ireland in the united kingdom in the flemish community of belgium for example school principals on temporary contracts may be dismissed if their performance is rated as unsatisfactory they may however remain employed in a teaching capacity if they had previously been granted a permanent teaching contract flemish ministry of education and training and the university of antwerp edubron research group