School principals have a significant impact on the academic achievement of their students (Leithwood et al., 2004;Marzano et al., 2005). This important responsibility is magnified by the fact that principals have a job that is increasingly complex and demanding (Copland, 2001;West et al., 2010). Recently, researchers and educators have voiced concern over whether current programs for principal preparation are sufficient to prepare school leaders for their challenging jobs . When It would not have been possible for me to complete this study without the support and guidance of numerous individuals. I am forever grateful to the following people:Dr. Carol Parham, my advisor and committee chair, whose advice, encouragement, and guidance helped me to identify a compelling research topic and then follow through to complete the study.

This study aimed at probing the function of love in the process of knowledge in the light of St. Bonaventure"s philosophy. To achieve this aim, the researcher have focused the study to the following questions: (a) What is the concept of love according to St. Bonaventure? (b) What is the process of knowledge? This study will use the qualitative-historical method. This study is qualitative because it deals with the non-numerical data in the form of philosophical texts. Also, it is historical in the sense of Schleiermacher and Dilthey"s ideographical history which does not so much focused on ideas in themselves but also on the life experience that led to formulation of the idea. The results showed, on the one hand, that love refers to which seeks its genuineness to God. A man-to-God relationship. In the Itinerarium mentis in Deum, love is when a man has reached the contemplation with God. To love is to be united with the First and Supreme Principle through contemplation. Knowledge, on the other hand, knowledge is a judgment, therefore, is an action which causes the sensible species, received in a sensible way through the senses, to enter the intellective faculty by a process of purification and abstraction. Hence, love is the unitive factor of knowledge that it cognates, and knowledge is the cognitive factor of love that it unites.

Leadership, in general, is about influencing other people towards the actualizing of the organizational goals and objectives. In this paper, it emphasized the situational leadership and how could be applied in a more realistic sense and vital in any educational institutions. This paper used qualitative-hermeneutical approach in the sense that it extends various instructional leadership framework or model in the new normal education. Results revealed that: (1) A Situational Leader is a very flexible leadership. In this sense, this leader could be able to manage a diverse environment, community, and individuals; (2) Path-goal theory of leadership maximizes the capabilities and potentials of each members in order to achieve the organizational goals which means to say that the leader of this kind might have a very healthy environment where all its members work together and open for collaborations until the end; (3) Leadership and culture are two important elements in every organization because a leader must be sensitive enough to respect the relativity of each culture in the organization and yet leading it towards schools’ excellence; (4) Leadership and ethics also play a vital role in the organization in the sense that a leader must possess integrity and truth. This leader also has a heart for its members where he or she is able to care for its members. He or she also preserves the dignity of the whole organization. It was recommended that leaders in the new normal should be flexible and willing to accept changes, leaders should maximize potentials, sensitive to one’s culture, and ethical in term of their commitment towards the attainment of quality education despite pandemic.

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