Practices and Challenges of School Leadership in Implementing School Improvement Program in Government Secondary Schools of Bole Sub City in Addis Ababa City Government
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2018-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study was to assess the practices and challenges of the school leadership in implementing school improvement program in government secondary schools of Bole Sub City in Addis Ababa City Government. To achieve this purpose, the study employed a mixed research method on the gap of school improvement program implementation. It was carried out in four Government Secondary Schools of Bole Sub City which were selected by using purposive sampling technique. The primary sources of data were school principals, teachers, supervisors, school improvement committee members, grade 10 classroom representative students and documents such as 3 years strategic plan, 1 year operational plan of school improvement and report were tested as secondary sources of data. Questionnaires, interview, focus group discussion, documents analysis and observation were instruments used to collect data for the study. From the total 250(187 males and 63 females) teachers, 84(33.6%) (54 males and 30 females) were selected using simple random sampling technique.15 school principals,4 supervisors, 28 SIP committee members and 36 grade 10 classroom representative students were included in the study by using purposive sampling technique. Data obtained from open ended questionnaires were entered into SPSS Version 20.0 software for analysis. Percentage, mean and standard deviation were tools employed to analyze the quantitative data, while the data obtained via open ended questionnaire; interview, focus group discussion, documents analysis and observation were analyzed using the qualitative research method. The major findings were lack of awareness creation for school communities during preparation stage, lack of participatory leading, lack of training for stakeholders, lack of commitment of stakeholders, lack of interest of students toward learning, less involvement of parents. Conclusions of the study were the problem sharing duties and lack of clear general guide line to address the accountability of the gap of the SIP implementation rather considering as the problem of the whole stakeholders. Based on the findings the following were recommended. Bole Sub City Education Office should fill the gap in the shortage of man power; school principals should create awareness for school communities about school improvement program via training and using participatory leading. Teachers should play their role in school improvement program implementation.
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Practices and Challenges of School Leadership