What is the main objective of educational leadership in schools?

Instructional leadership theory frames a school leader's core mandate as strengthening the teaching-learning process itself: setting clear instructional goals, supporting teachers' pedagogical growth, and improving students' learning outcomes, rather than any single administrative, financial, or event-management task.

Applying this principle to the given options, the objective centred on refining teaching methods and enhancing students' learning outcomes is the one that instructional-leadership theory identifies as the school leader's core objective.

• Supervising administrative staff without involvement in classroom teaching is an administrative-oversight function, kept separate from the instructional process the theory places at the centre.

• Managing school finances and maintaining physical infrastructure only is a resource-management function that keeps school operations running but does not itself address teaching or learning.

• Organizing school programs and extra-curricular activities specifically is a co-curricular scheduling function, distinct from the instructional-improvement focus the theory describes.

Because only the teaching-methods-and-learning-outcomes objective aligns with the instructional-leadership principle, that option is the correct answer.