The School Leaders dropdown brings together four 90-day operational handbooks — one per sub-role. The handbook explains why your role exists and how to ramp up in your first 90 days; the Weekly Checklist tells you what to do this Monday. Together they answer "what" and "why" without duplicating words. If a word looks new, Section 7 — Glossary explains it.

A short promise
You do not need to read every handbook today. Open the one for your role first. Skim the four stages. Come back here when a meeting touches another lane — for example, when a Principal needs to read the Cambridge Coordinator's escalation ladder before the next entries window.
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What is the Operational Guide?
A landing page for the four school leadership handbooks. Each handbook is a first-90-days operational ramp for one sub-role — what the role exists for, the four stages of the ramp, escalation ladders, key contacts, and 12–18 tasks tagged against Cambridge School Leader Standards 2023 + Eduversal Academic Standards.
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Who uses it?
If your profile carries foundation_representative, school_principal, academic_coordinator, or cambridge_coordinator as a sub-role, your handbook is pinned first. Academic admins see all four without filtering. Sibling handbooks are always readable so cross-functional context is one click away.
This is the operational ramp — not the year-1 induction. The Operational Guide is for someone taking on the role (first 90 days, no mentor required). The mentor-led year-1 arc is on My Induction (Listen → Diagnose → Act → Anchor windows + observation + journal). Different temporal frame, different audience — same person can use both.

Each handbook has the same shape — 4 stages over 12 weeks, with charter rules + escalation paths + key contacts + concrete tasks. The split is by audience, not by content style.

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Sub-role 1
Foundation Rep
Governance — the owner's voice at the school. Translates Foundation direction into school decisions; chairs the appraisal cycle.
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Sub-role 2
Principal
Operational lead. Sets the academic tone; runs the leadership rhythm; owns teacher appraisal calibration; first responder for cross-functional issues.
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Sub-role 3
Academic Coordinator
Engine room of curriculum delivery. Owns scheme-of-work coverage, pacing, internal assessment cycles, day-to-day academic ops.
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Sub-role 4
Cambridge Coordinator
Cambridge International liaison. Entries, candidate registration, AS/A-Level pathways, Cambridge QA trail — works closely with HQ Subject Specialists.
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One important note. The Operational Guide sits alongside My Induction (year-1 mentee arc, mentor-led) and Competency Framework (6 leadership domains × 24 competencies). Different surfaces, different goals — same person can use all three at different stages of the year.

Your active sub-role(s) are pinned to the top of the grid below. Sibling handbooks remain available for cross-reference — every meeting touches more than one lane.

Related references

🌱 Year-1 Induction

If you joined this school in the last 12 months, the mentor-led induction handbook is your primary surface — it covers the 4-window arc + observation + journal.

📋 Weekly Checklist

The handbook tells you WHY the function exists; the weekly checklist tells you WHAT to do this week. Pair the two — open the handbook stage you're in, then the checklist for the live week.

🎯 Competency Framework

Six leadership domains × 24 competencies, anchored in Cambridge School Leader Standards 2023. The handbooks point into specific competencies — track your evidence here.

📚 References & Standards

The verbatim source archive — Cambridge standards, Eduversal Academic Standards (the §1-§23 manual), AICF, Indonesian regulations. Handbook chips deep-link into this surface.

📖 Handbook Browser

The full handbook catalogue — induction, role-operational (all four sub-roles), policy-topic (Safeguarding / Behaviour / etc.), AICF companions.

💬 Meetings

The operational guides become real here — each agenda item ladders to a handbook stage. When uncertain who owns an item, open the relevant sub-role handbook's "key contacts" section.

A soft list, not a test. Tick them off in your head — or your own notes — over the first 5 working days as a new school leader.

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Open Section 3 and pin your handbook
Your sub-role is pinned to the top of the role grid. Open it. Read Stage 1 in full this week — it sets the tone for everything that follows. Skim Stages 2-4 to know what is coming.
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Open Weekly Checklist and tick what you have already done
Each handbook task carries a weeklyChecklistTaskIds[] back-link to the live week's checklist. Tick honestly; if a task does not apply this week, mark it N/A — leaving it open for years stops being useful.
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Open Directory and find your team
See who the other leaders at your school are — Principal, Academic Coordinator, Cambridge Coordinator, Foundation Rep — plus the HQ Director-Network you report up to. If your own card has missing fields, ask a central admin to fix it.
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Read the most recent Meeting for your school
Fastest way to catch up on what your school's leadership team is working on. Skim the agenda items — especially anything tagged "decision" or "action".
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Skim the active rows on Decisions
You do not need to memorise them. Just learn where to look when a parent or teacher asks "is this our school's rule?".
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If your role overlaps another, skim that sibling handbook too
A new Principal who oversees Cambridge entries should also skim the Cambridge Coordinator handbook's Stage 2 — Entries Window. Cross-reference is the whole point of having four cards on one page.
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Bookmark this page
When something feels confusing, come back here. The glossary in Section 7 covers the words you will see most often.

The School Leaders dropdown adapts to who you are. The boxes below show only the ones that apply to you today. They may change later if a central admin updates your sub-role.

Academic Hub has many other menus. You do not need them all now, but it helps to know they exist.

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My Induction
If you joined this school in the last 12 months, the mentor-led induction handbook is your primary surface. 4-window arc (Listen / Diagnose / Act / Anchor) + observation + journal.
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Handbook Browser
The full handbook catalogue — induction handbooks, role-operational handbooks (all four sub-roles), policy-topic handbooks (Safeguarding / Behaviour / etc.), AICF companion handbooks.
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References
Every framework, every Cambridge standard, every Indonesian regulation we use — all in one searchable place. Use it when you want the source behind a code like CSLS 4.1 or ES 7.3.
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Competency Framework
Six leadership domains × 24 competencies, anchored in Cambridge School Leader Standards 2023. Track your CPD evidence over time on My Portfolio.

Short, plain meanings for the terms that show up most often across the four handbooks.

Foundation Representativesub-role on your AH profile
The owner's voice at the school — translates Foundation-level direction into school-level decisions; chairs the appraisal cycle for the Principal. Excluded at rule level from Principal coaching notes (coaching confidentiality).
School Principalsub-role on your AH profile
Day-to-day operational lead of the school. Sets the academic tone, runs the leadership rhythm, owns teacher appraisal calibration. First responder for cross-functional issues.
Academic Coordinatorsub-role on your AH profile
Engine room of curriculum delivery. Owns scheme-of-work coverage, pacing across all subjects, internal assessment cycles, and the day-to-day pulse of academic operations.
Cambridge Coordinatorsub-role on your AH profile
The Cambridge International liaison. Owns entries, candidate registration, exam logistics, AS/A-Level pathway decisions, and the Cambridge quality assurance trail. Works closely with HQ Subject Specialists.
Handbookrole-operational or induction
A 90-day operational guide. Explains why the role exists and how to ramp up in your first 90 days. Each task references a Cambridge standard (CSLS) and an Eduversal Academic Standard (ES). Lives in induction_programs/ with handbookKind: 'role-operational'.
Weekly Checklistpaired surface
The handbook tells you WHY; the weekly checklist tells you WHAT to do this Monday. Each handbook task carries a weeklyChecklistTaskIds[] back-link to the live week. Don't duplicate text across both — they cite each other instead.
Stagein each handbook
A phase of the 90-day ramp. Three handbooks use Stage 1-4 (4 stages × 3 weeks). The Principal handbook uses Listen → Diagnose → Act → Anchor windows — same shape, different language for an operational leader.
CSLSCambridge School Leader Standards 2023
Cambridge's 25-standard framework for school leadership — the anchor for AH's competency framework + the leadership-handbook task tagging. Click any CSLS X.Y chip in the handbook reader to see the verbatim source.
ESEduversal Academic Standards
Eduversal's 23-section, 393-madde policy manual for partner schools. Handbook tasks tagged with ES 7.3 deep-link to the source madde in References.
NN (Non-Negotiable)Charter chips in the reader
Five charter rules that protect induction integrity (e.g. NN2 — HQ never reads named journal entries). Click any NN chip in the handbook reader to open the charter popover.
ah_sub_roles[]profile field
The sub-role array on your AH profile. Drives this page's "pin your handbook first" behaviour. Multi-value — a Principal who is also Cambridge Coordinator sees both cards pinned, not just one.
Stuck? That is okay.
The School Leaders dropdown is shared work across your school's leadership team. If a page feels broken, a sub-role gate looks wrong, or a handbook stage needs a refresh, talk to your school's academic admin or a central admin at HQ. We fix it for everyone.
📖 Open Handbook Browser 📚 Open References 🎯 Competency Framework 🌱 My Induction