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    Instructional Leadership Role of Dire Dawa Secondary School Principals
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-05) Abebe, Anteneh; Yimam, Melaku (PhD)
    The main purpose of this study was to assess the role and practices of secondary school principals as an instructional leader. To accomplish this purpose, descriptive survey design was used which is supplemented by qualitative research to enrich data. The study was carried out in seven randomly selected secondary schools of Dire Dawa City Administration. Then all 100 teachers in the sample schools included using census method. All 7unit leaders, 7 principals, 5 Secondary school supervisors, 7Parent Teacher Associations and 5 Kebele supervisors were also involved in the study for interviewing through census and purposive sampling techniques respectively. Questionnaire was the main instrument of data collection. Document analysis & interview were also utilized to substantiate the data obtained through the questionnaire. Frequency distributions, percentage, mean Score and standard deviation were employed in analyzing and reporting the results. Qualitative data obtained through document analysis & interview was analyzed using narration. Findings revealed that Dire Dawa City Administration secondary school principals did not successfully implemented the eight major instructional leadership roles under the study. Accordingly, principals have shown weak performance in defining & communicate school mission; managing curriculum& instruction; instructional supervision; instructional learning climate; monitoring student progress; and promote teachers professional growth etc. The major factors that affected the roles of the school principals are lack of leadership and management skills, insufficient experience in principal ship, workload, less parental involvement and lack of support from Kebele Education Coordinator, and Dire Dawa City Administration Education Bureau. At the conclusion, the study revealed that most principals have given moderate attention to this part of their role. As a result, instructional leadership is not provided strongly by most school principals. Moreover, the majority of principals did not also perform effectively in each instructional leadership dimension. They were assigned the post without having educational planning and management skills. Finally the study found that principals had weak performance in defining & communicating their school goals with, staff, students, and parents. Therefore, it is recommended that principals should clearly define & communicate their school goals & their goals should be incorporate data based on past and current student performance with participating staffs, students, and parents because, their experience will be created as a foundation for determining school goals. Moreover, involving staff, students, and parents will also give other important information which refers to their experience in defining school goals. Apart from this, based on the findings and conclusions of the study recommendations forwarded that KEC and DDCAEB should regularly attend trainings organized by NGOS, different stakeholders and educational partners for principals to acquire more knowledge about their role as instructional leaders and principals should to be committed and effective to implement properly their roles as instructional leaders.