Innovative Leadership of Principals in the Implementation of Senior High School Program in Philippines

This sequential explanatory mixed methods research design aimed to explore the innovative leadership practices of principals in the implementation of Senior High School Program in the Division of Davao del Sur. Using purposive sampling, ten (10) secondary school heads answered the validated and tried interview guide which results were coded, interpreted, and clustered into leadership, individual attributes, psychological climate for innovation and influence to the stakeholders based on the theory, Determining Individual Innovative Behavior: A Hypothetical Model by Scot and Bruce (1994). Thereafter, an eighty-one (81) item initial survey questionnaire was developed and by complete enumeration, it was administered to two hundred (200) Senior High School teacher-respondents. Using Exploratory Factor Analysis, seventy (70) item survey questionnaire on principals’ innovative leadership practices was developed and generated three (3) components which included leadership, individual attributes, and psychological climate for innovation. The developed survey questionnaire was subjected to internal consistency reliability test in which the computed Cronbach’s Alpha value was 0.989 which means that the over-all reliability of it was excellent. Based on the findings, it was recommended that school heads need tos focus on setting goals and plans, equip themselves with the basic skills, plan and develop effective strategies, coordinate, communicate and empower stakeholders, analyze the educational pattern and meet, cope up and sustain the needs of the school in all aspects.