Taking the Lead: Instructional Leaders’ Experiences in the New Normal

The primary duty of school leaders, All school leaders need to be aware of what is happening in the classroom and work to improve the skills of their proficient teachers who are deeply engaged in curriculum and teaching issues that have a direct impact on student achievement, This study aims to describe the experiences of instructional leaders during the new normal.Specifically, it sought answers to the following: 1.What supervisory strategies do instructional leaders employ during the new normal?2. What problems do instructional leaders encounter in the performance of their functions?3. How do instructional leaders navigate the challenges and opportunities presented by the new normal of education?4. What instructional supervision model could be formulated? 5. What is the level of validity of the formulated model?The researcher used qualitative research design.It made use of research guide questions for the study on instructional leaders' experiences in the new normal.Based on the findings of the study, the following conclusions were drawn.The experiences of instructional leaders were evidence of hard work, resiliency, patience, and collaboration.The ups and downs of instructional leaders represented beyond commitment and dedication.They have imprint different leadership skills pertinent to the new normal education set-up.Their honesty for self-improvement and innovation paved way for effective leadership.their leadership inculcate lifelong learning, extremely in setting directions and technological advancements.Their being flexible to the rise and fall of difficulties has strengthened their cooperation, responsibility, communications and intensified school parent and community collaborations.Instructional leaders pursue to work even harder to provide relevant and unselfish leadership in the new normal to sustain effective supervision.Based from the following conclusion, the following conclusion were drawn.To ensure that all schools are producing a 21st century graduates, instructional leaders must effectively practice instructional supervision, explores trends in instructional leadership practices that provides comparative analysis across different educational context and the effectiveness of interventions at enhancing leadership capacity and need thrive to compete in the current situations.The evidence base on instructional leadership has consolidated the positive impact that school leaders can have on learning and learner outcomes.School leaders must lead by examples, most leaders want to set standards within their school, but they forget how to set it on how they wanted their teachers to behave and perform.If one leader expects their teachers to work and be productive, they must first demonstrate those behaviors in themselves.If they want their teachers to be ethical and honest, they must lead by example and show them that they value those qualities.There should be continuity, regularity, and quality in the supervision.A closer, regular, and continuous supervision of teachers should be encouraged rather than snappy and unscheduled visits.For the instruction to be effective and religiously be practice, The department of education must seek and provide individual/ person who may assists our school leaders in terms of their administrative works, there should be one administrative officer who will be in charge of all the administrative tasks of the school leader so that instructional supervisors can fully practice, give their full time, commitment, focus on their instructional supervision, and perform their functions and duties as instructional leaders effectively.For better understanding of the trends in instructional leadership practices and other comparative analysis across different educational context, the use of formulated model will be the basis in addressing issues and through intervention plan it will assess effectiveness of interventions at enhancing leadership capacity, it will also provide a conceptual framework for all instructional leaders to guide them address needs.g.This study will be disseminated and will be share to all educators, other stake holders or even the next researchers, this will be used or presented through conferences, presentations, school based in service training, LAC Sessions, and other Social Media Platforms to maximize the impact of reach of this study for future studies and future