Leadership and Management of Gemolong ‘Aisyiyah’s Prime Elementary School Towards Progressive School

Abstract

The success of a school in becoming a superior and progressive school cannot be separated from the school community, there is school principal, who leads the entire school community, from the vision and mission which was designed in such way to suit the needs of the people surround, management including educational activities planning, educational activities implementation, and educational activities supervising. The strategies designed by school principal are objectived to produce the best quality graduates and to improve the quality of the teacher, completing school’s facilities and infrastructures also creating safe and comfortable environment for learning. The objective of this research is to understand how’s the principal’s strategy to improve school quality by facing obstacles and challenges to become a prime school in sub-district Gemolong, Sragen Regency, also how to prepare, anticipate, and find the solution. Author use qualitative method with doing interview, observation, and documentating in ‘Aisyiyah Gemolong Prime School, Sragen, Central Java.