Persistence for achievement reflected from the willingness and determination of principal to implement quality leadership will facilitate the improvement of teachers’ performance, and the two will be the determinant factors for the students’ ultimate achievement. This study aims at analyzing empirical data on the effect of instructional, transformational and spiritual leadership as independent variables, with school quality as the dependent variable. In addition, the intervening variable is teachers’ performance. This study employed the quantitative approach in which samples of 181 teachers were re taken using the proportional random sampling technique. All data were then analysed using the SEM technique with the AMOS 24 application. The findings show that: (1) there is a direct effect of instructional leadership on teachers’ performance, transformational leadership on teachers’ performance, spiritual leadership on teachers’ performance, instructional leadership on students’ achievement, transformational leadership on students’ achievement, spiritual leadership on students’ achievement, and teachers’ performance on students’ achievement. In addition, (2) there is an indirect effect of instructional leadership on students’ achievement through teachers’ performance, transformational leadership on students’ achievement through teachers’ performance and spiritual leadership on students’ achievement through teachers’ performance.
This study aimed at finding an effective leadership strategy carried out by one-roof school principals in remote areas. This study was conducted qualitatively with a multi-site approach. The data were obtained from the school principals as key informants and focus group discussion (FGD) involving all school principals, Indonesian Institute of Education Innovation Training and Consultant (LPKIPI), education staff, school supervisors, and stakeholders as the participants and resource persons. Findings suggested that (a) the problems encountered by one-roof school principals in the remote areas were significantly related to culture, economy, demography, geography, and historical aspects, (b) the characteristics of success of school principals in remote areas include a clear vision, high-spirit performance, andhab asor (low profile), active involvement in various social activities, strong motivation for continuous learning, open to feedback, having commitment to cooperate with various parties, having a high awareness that school is an educational system and the essential part from the social system in general, persistent, high confidence that they are not alone in carrying out school policies, creative, able to see the context in various perspectives, patient, polite, warm, and smart or attractive, (c) “Gethok Tular1” is the most effective leadership strategy to strengthen the role of multi-stakeholder forum (MSF), and (d) the involvement of MSF members needs to be done selectively and effectively through the identification of TKU, intensive communication with TKU, identification of other figures, discussions, and sharing roles and strengthening MSF on an ongoing basis.
The latest ‘freedom to learn’ policy, issued by the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, must be implemented by educational institutions at various levels. The principals played significant roles such as community empowerment to utilize all resources in the schools to support the policy. The research aimed to describe the principals’ efforts in improving community participation in the school and to describe the social involvement in facilitating the freedom to learn at schools. This study employed a qualitative approach with a multi-case research design, and it was conducted in Indonesia, particularly in Tana Tidung Regency in North Kalimantan, Bondowoso Regency in East Java, and Malang City in East Java. The data collection techniques included in-depth interviews and document studies, and to validate the data used a credibility technique. The data validation through the credibility technique was carried out by conducting triangulation, checking members, and improving the persistence and adequacy of reference materials. The cross-case data analysis in this study applied a constant comparative method. The analysis was conducted in all three cases resulted in the provisional findings, continued by data comparison that would later be found by the three cases. The results of this research were the principals’ efforts in enhancing community participation through cooperation with several related parties. The principals were regarded as role models in supporting the ‘freedom to learn’ policy and building cooperation with related partners. The kind of community participation varied based on the uniqueness of each region.
This research aims to describe; (1) the strength of the school committee; (2) forms of school committee involvement; (3) the headmaster that strategy involves school committee; (4) obstacles of the school committee; (5) committee's problem solving alterative in SDN Blimbing 4 Malang. This research uses qualitative approach with case study research type. The data collection techniques are that used observation, interview and documentation. Based on the process of collecting and analyzing, the result of the obtained data are: (1) the strength of the committee derived comes from the readiness, the alertness to solve the problem, the clear division of labor, and the good coordination; (2) forms of committee involvement are: holding meetings, raising funds, controlling the finances, directing and involving parents in the program, reporting the results of activities to parents; (3) the strategy of the headmaster involves the committees are coordinating, approaching, and becoming a role model; (4) the obstacle of school committee constraints such as committee managers are rarely complete during meetings, the guardian objected to donate voluntary; (5) the problem solving alternatives are the absent committee board is replaced by another committee, and take personal approach. Keyword : involvement, school committee, improving the quality of education Abstrak: Tujuan penelitian ini mendeskripsikan; (1) kekuatan komite sekolah; (2) bentukbentuk pelibatan komite sekolah; (3) strategi kepala sekolah melibatkan komite sekolah; (4) kendala-kendala komite sekolah; (5) alternatif pemecahan masalah komite di SDN Blimbing 4 Malang. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan jenis penelitian studi kasus. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan ialah observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Berdasarkan proses pengumpulan dan analisis data didapatkan hasil, yaitu: (1) kekuatan komite berasal dari keaktifan, kesigapan menindaklanjuti masalah, pembagian kerja yang jelas, dan koordinasi yang baik; (2) bentuk-bentuk pelibatan komite yaitu: mengadakan pertemuan, menggalang dana, mengontrol keuangan, mengarahkan dan melibatkan orang tua dalam program, melaporkan hasil kegiatan kepada orang tua; (3) strategi kepala sekola melibatkan komite yaitu berkoordinasi, melakukan pendekatan-pendekatan, dan kepala sekolah menjadi tauladan; (4) kendala-kendala komite sekolah diantaranya pengurus komite jarang lengkap saat pertemuan, wali murid keberatan saat sumbangan sukarela; (5) alternatif pemecahan masalah yakni pengurus yang tidak hadir digantikan dengan pengurus lainnya, melakukan pendekatan secara personal.
Integrity is the quality of honesty and moral principles in a person that is carried out consistently in his life as a whole. Integrity is the personality of someone who acts consistently and intact, both in words and deeds, following values and code of ethics. Efforts to strengthen the dedication and integrity of school principals and teachers are important to prepare the Indonesian generation to enter their time by continuing to renew competencies to provide the best education services. The moral debate is used as an approach to increasing the integrity of principals. Various things related to education can be used as topics in the moral debate of the principal. All these topics must remain within the corridors of Indonesian nationality. National values become the main thing to improve the quality of school education through the leadership of the principal. This is expected to foster the value of patriotism for students.
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