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Demo International School

How we operate

Who leads what, what we are focusing on this year, and how decisions are made.

Leadership · strategic responsibility, not performance

Head of Pastoral

1 strategic focus area · carrying 1 commitment · Next: Grade 9 advisory implementation ready for next term · 9 Oct
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Focus this year
Currently carrying
  • Draft G9 advisory schedule Improve student belonging & wellbeing · 9 Oct · under way
Can decide
No decision right is recorded for this role in the current agreement.
Upcoming moments
  • 9 Oct · Grade 9 advisory implementation ready for next term

MYP Coordinator

1 strategic focus area · carrying 3 commitments · Next: First moderation cycle completed · 30 Sep
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Focus this year
Currently carrying
  • Confirm subject leads for moderation Strengthen MYP unit planning quality · 10 Sep · past its agreed date
  • Share exemplar unit plans with all faculty Strengthen MYP unit planning quality · 18 Sep · under way
  • Publish the fortnightly review rota Strengthen MYP unit planning quality · 29 Sep · under way
Completed
  • Publish peer review rota 3 Sep
  • Run the first fortnightly review cycle 11 Sep
Can decide
  • Academic programme planning
Consult
  • Relevant subject teachers — on academic programme planning
  • Head of School decides where a change affects more than one programme or carries budget implications.
Upcoming moments
  • 30 Sep · First moderation cycle completed

CEO

Tell me more
Focus this year
No strategic outcome is recorded against this role.
Currently carrying
No live commitments recorded.
Can decide
  • Budget commitments
Consult
  • External finance advice where appropriate — on budget commitments
Upcoming moments
No dated milestone or review ahead.

Deputy Principal

carrying 1 commitment · Next: Propose PL budget allocation · 29 Sep
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Focus this year
No strategic outcome is recorded against this role.
Currently carrying
  • Propose PL budget allocation Build teacher professional learning culture · 29 Sep · under way
Can decide
No decision right is recorded for this role in the current agreement.
Upcoming moments
No dated milestone or review ahead.

Deputy Principal (Learning)

Next: Curriculum review completed across subject teams · 31 Oct
Tell me more
Focus this year
No strategic outcome is recorded against this role.
Currently carrying
No live commitments recorded.
Can decide
No decision right is recorded for this role in the current agreement.
Upcoming moments
  • 31 Oct · Curriculum review completed across subject teams

Head of School

Next: Semester implementation review completed · 15 Dec
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Focus this year
No strategic outcome is recorded against this role.
Currently carrying
No live commitments recorded.
Can decide
  • Staff-impacting operational policy
Consult
  • Leadership team where the impact is significant — on staff-impacting operational policy
Upcoming moments
  • 15 Dec · Semester implementation review completed

Leadership Team

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Focus this year
No strategic outcome is recorded against this role.
Currently carrying
No live commitments recorded.
Can decide
  • Professional learning programme
  • Whole-school strategy
Consult
  • Teaching staff — on professional learning programme
  • Relevant stakeholders depending on topic — on whole-school strategy
Upcoming moments
No dated milestone or review ahead.

Assembled from strategic ownership, milestones, the active Leadership Agreement and the Clock. Nobody maintains this by hand, and SchoolOS does not score, rank or compare people.

The Leadership Agreement, decision rights and decisions recorded differently

Leadership culture

Leadership combines clear authority with appropriate consultation and professional expertise. We seek expertise before hierarchy where that produces a better decision, and we communicate significant decisions clearly.

Our decision principles

Decisions should sit as close as possible to the expertise needed to make them well. Consultation should be proportionate to the impact of the decision. Where we operate differently from this agreement, we say so and record why.

Learning · Collaboration · Integrity · Belonging

Source: Leadership Alignment Workshop, Aug 2026 (fictitious demo data)

Decision rights · who normally decides, and how

AreaDecidesHowConsultInform
Academic programme planning
Boundary: Head of School decides where a change affects more than one programme or carries budget implications.
MYP Coordinator Delegated authority Relevant subject teachers Head of School
Budget commitments CEO Individual authority External finance advice where appropriate Head of School where staff impact is material
Professional learning programme Leadership Team Leadership team Teaching staff All staff
Staff-impacting operational policy Head of School Consulted, then decided Leadership team where the impact is significant All staff affected
Whole-school strategy Leadership Team Leadership team Relevant stakeholders depending on topic All staff

Role labels are free text agreed at the workshop. SchoolOS holds no org chart and no permissions model.

The workshop writes the agreement; SchoolOS keeps it visible. It does not judge who was right. Demo International School