SCHOOL LEADERSHIP PRACTICES IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF EAST SHOA ZONE, OROMIA REGIONAL STATE

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess the Impact of School culture on School leadership practice in Secondary Schools of East Shoe Zone, Oromia Regional State. Descriptive survey (qualitative and quantitative) approach was used. The sampling techniques used were simple random sampling and available sampling. The researcher used questionnaire and interview to gather data from respondents. The target population of the research was government secondary school teachers, students’ council, supervisors and school principals. Seven woredas and seven secondary schools were selected randomly. The size of sampled population was 152 teachers, 35 students’ councils, 7 supervisors and 7 school principals which were 201 respondents. In the process of analyzing data, the researcher used mean and one way ANOVA methods. The finding shows that in the majority Secondary Schools of East Shoa Zone were practiced by teacher’s participation and staff/Professional development. Collaborative leadership poorly existed in secondary schools. Among the leadership style democratic leadership style was applied more than autocratic and lassies-faire leadership style. Based on the findings and conclusions, recommendations were made on capacity building and empowering of principals to do their work effectively, in turn, encouraging participatory approach of leadership. Furthermore, WEO and ZEO are responsible to give directives and guidelines in the case that whenever shortcomings and gaps are observed and the schools should organized public relations to create school-community links.