BLOG PENDIDIKAN DAN BEASISWA

By Dion Ginanto              Principal leadership is an important factor for promoting high quality of innovation in schools. In every school in the world, including my school where I teach in Indonesia, they are trying to find the best model of leadership to be applied to improve the quality of schools. The principals in Indonesia use different kinds of leadership, but mostly they use the traditional model of leadership. Traditional leadership here means that the principal is the hero (head) of the school. In other words, the growth of the schools depends on the quality of the principal. Spillane et al. (2004) wrote that it is generally acknowledged that where there are good schools, there are good leaders. But then, if a principal leaves the school, it will be difficult to find a successor because candidates do not have the same capacity as their former principal. As a result, when the principal is changing, all the policies also change. Therefore, I believe that the model of th

Dion Eprijum Ginanto “The fragility of crystal is not a weakness but a fineness". Parents understood that fine crystal glass had to be cared for or may be shattered. But when it came to you, they didn't seem to know or care that their course of their secret action brought the kind of devastation that could cut them. Their fraudulent marriage was for you a murder of every day's truth. You felt your whole life turned like a river suddenly reversing the direction of its flow. Suddenly running uphill. These revelations struck at the core of your sense of identity. They made your entire childhood seem like fiction. Chris never told them he knew and made me promise silence as well.” (Chris McCandles) From "Into the Wild" Novel by Jon Krakauer Some parents may think that what they did are for their kids. They work so hard; they go to work from morning until late at night. They argue that they make money for their kids’ future. However, parents sometimes f