Contemporary Educational Leadership and its Role in Converting Traditional Schools into Professional Learning Communities.

The dynamics of school as a single source of knowledge have changed, which eliminate the organizational obstacles that hinder its learning process and endeavor towards the construction of a leadership competence. The ability of an organization to construct and support the professional learning communities depends on its ability to improve and support an individual. This study therefore aims to investigate the role of contemporary educational leadership in converting traditional schools into professional learning communities. The current study has adopted one of the developmental approaches that simultaneously represent contemporary trends in improving the school. An increase is found among the school staff related to the improvement and development of the project concerning its planning, organizing, implementation, and evaluation. The implementation of reformative perspective increases the desire towards the implementation of decentralization. The work teams are successful in fulfilling all tasks and solving the problems that are encountered by the leaders and members of the team. The concern towards investment in the information and communication technology has been growing to build the leadership capacities of the members of teamwork.