Standards for School Leadership Practice: What a Leader Needs to Know and Be Able to Do - "Districts do not have to go it alone in the development of state-of-the-art leadership development plans and programs. Ample help is available—some of it on the e-Lead website. The core of any program should be its standards for what the leader should know and be able to do, and the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium's (ISLLC) "Standards for School Leaders" provides the basis for the information contained on e-Lead. Other useful, if slightly less authoritative, sets of standards or guiding principles are also available. Selected sets of standards are outlined below. Though they vary in substance, they all tend to place a deliberate emphasis on the centrality of student learning."