Curriculum leadership in schools involves guiding the planning, implementation and evaluation of the curriculum in a way that aligns with educational goals, learner needs and societal expectations. One of the major challenges of curriculum leadership is balancing centralized mandates with local needs. School leaders are often required to implement national or state curriculum frameworks, leaving limited flexibility to adapt content to the cultural, linguistic and socio-economic context of their students. This tension can restrict innovation and reduce teacher autonomy, making it difficult to create a curriculum that is both relevant and meaningful. Another significant challenge is managing change and resistance. Curriculum reforms frequently introduce new pedagogical approaches, assessment strategies and subject integrations. Teachers may resist such changes due to lack of clarity, insufficient training or fear of increased workload. Effective curriculum leadership requires not only technical knowledge but also the ability to motivate, support and build consensus among staff. Without collaborative decision-making, curriculum reforms may remain superficial and fail to impact classroom practices. Ensuring coherence and continuity across grades and subjects is also a complex task. Curriculum leaders must ensure vertical alignment, so that learning progresses logically from one level to the next, and horizontal alignment, so that different subjects complement each other. In practice, fragmentation often occurs