Set educational standards and goals, and help establish policies and procedures to carry them out.

“Set educational standards and goals, and help establish policies and procedures to carry them out.” is a core task performed by Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary. Among the occupation's 32 rated tasks, workers place it 23rd by importance (#10 most important). About 96% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Develop educational programs, plans, or procedures. in Thinking Creatively
• Develop organizational policies, systems, or processes. in Developing Objectives and Strategies

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Counsel and provide guidance to students regarding personal, academic, vocational, or behavioral issues. · importance 4.5
• Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities, policies, and student behavior or learning problems. · importance 4.5
• Determine the scope of educational program offerings, and prepare drafts of course schedules and descriptions to estimate staffing and facility requirements. · importance 4.4
• Observe teaching methods and examine learning materials to evaluate and standardize curricula and teaching techniques and to determine areas for improvement. · importance 4.4
• Collaborate with teachers to develop and maintain curriculum standards, develop mission statements, and set performance goals and objectives. · importance 4.3
• Enforce discipline and attendance rules. · importance 4.3
• Recruit, hire, train, and evaluate primary and supplemental staff. · importance 4.2
• Plan and lead professional development activities for teachers, administrators, and support staff. · importance 4.2
• Direct and coordinate activities of teachers, administrators, and support staff at schools, public agencies, and institutions. · importance 4.2
• Evaluate curricula, teaching methods, and programs to determine their effectiveness, efficiency, and use, and to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. · importance 4.1
• Create school improvement plans, using student performance data. · importance 4.0
• Determine allocations of funds for staff, supplies, materials, and equipment, and authorize purchases. · importance 4.0
• Prepare and submit budget requests and recommendations, or grant proposals to solicit program funding. · importance 4.0
• Establish, coordinate, and oversee particular programs across school districts, such as programs to evaluate student academic achievement. · importance 3.9

See all tasks on the Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Set educational standards and goals, and help establish policies and procedures to carry them out.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-5223}
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