Leading Successful Schools: Sharing the Wisdom (A Case Study into a Developing Country’s Perspective)
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https://doi.org/10.54183/jssr.v3i2.314Keywords:
Successful Schools, Leadership and Management Practices, Principal as a Successful Leader, School Management CommitteeAbstract
Leading successful school Principals plays a vital role in the school environment. Successful school Principals as educational leaders dedicate significant time to educating school stakeholders on the primary objective of school reform. They provide structures that facilitate communication between schools and processes that enable school stakeholders to engage in truly participatory decision-making. The purpose of this study, which examined the role of successful school Principals’ educational leadership and management practices, was to determine how Principals' leadership and management practices facilitate the transition to a successful school. The research was conducted using the experiences of three school Principals. The data were gathered utilizing a qualitative case study methodology, which included semi-structured interviews, observations, and document analysis. The findings indicated that Principals of schools made significant changes to transform their institutions into successful schools. The findings of this study are significant because they shed light on the relative strengths and weaknesses of successful school Principals’ leadership and management practices in transforming schools, as well as on the additional support that Principals require to transform their schools. The study recommends the areas of schools as leading successful schools’ leadership and management practices in order for schools the concept of schools to be more approachable to school stakeholders.
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