CORRELATES OF SUCCESSFUL TRANSFORMATIONAL EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Abstract

This study investigated the correlates of successful transformational educational leadersh ip th r ough the views and lived experiences of the participants from Talisay City National High School, Cebu, Philippines consisting of two (2) administrative, two (2) non teaching and nine (9) teaching personnel following a qualitative descriptive phenomen ologi c al method utilizing Colaizzi’s (1978) seven steps of data analysis. A s supported by the data extracts of the study, four themes (4) are figured out, to wit: “lead to change,” “harmony amidst diversity,” “profession as passion” and “lead by example”. As re v ealed, commitment, intra and interrelationship and leader’s influence (lead to change and lead by example) greatly affect the success of transformational educational leadership while financial (profession as passion) aspect revealed to be the least a mong t he five.