“…Indeed, and in contrast to the more unquestioned professional (self-)understanding of teachers of school leaders, the relationship between parents and educational professionality seems, at least at first sight, much less self-evident. However, when looking into the field of parenthood research (see section 3), over the past years, the notion of parental educational professionalization has become intensively and also very critically discussed as part of the ongoing, global (re-)construction of parental roles (e.g., Jergus, 2018;Jergus, Krüger & Roch, 2018;TC, 2023, 29 (1) 95 Lee, Bristow, Faircloth & Macvarish, 2014;Ott & Roch, 2018). More specifically, parental educational professionalization is hereby associated with a growing understanding of parents (1) as (data) monitors and opportunity maximizers in order to optimize their children's educational success, hereby (2) as active members of 'educational (monitoring) networks' (including the school), but equally (3) as permanent seekers for external advice/support in this process.…”