Instructional Leadership: Practices of The Excellence School Principals in Aceh

The purpose of this book is to inform readers on the practices of the excellent school (sekolah unggulan) principal leadership in Aceh, Indonesia. The author’s experience in browsing and searching literature on the issues of the excellent school shows that there is a scarcity of literatures or well-organized materials on the excellent schools, and it not easy to find research findings on excellent schools and school principal leadership especially on Aceh context either. Many of the author’ colleagues asked him to publish this document as a book. To respond to the requests, the author rewrites and publishes this research results as a book, which is very useful for school stakeholders such as principals, teachers, parents, educational authorities and teacher training faculty students, or even anybody interested in issues of education.