Effective Leadership on Curriculum 2013 Implementation in Religious Based Schools

This study aims to describe: 1) the problems the school experienced in implementing the Curriculum 2013 in the context of religious foundation; 2) the principal's view of the Curriculum 2013 implementation. 3) The roles performed by the principal as a leader in the implementation of the Curriculum 2013, and 4) the strategy carried out by the principal as a leader in the framework of the successful implementation of the Curriculum 2013. This study uses a qualitative approach using a case study research describe the effective leadership in excellence school. Data and all information then discussed with all participants (by purposive sampling) through forum group discussion. The last analysis of the findings then approached by combining with literatures review. The key informant in this study is the principals and teachers. Data was collected through participatory observation techniques, in-depth interviews, and documentation. The research found that there were four dominant leadership played by the principal in realizing effective schools, they are spiritual leadership, change leadership, instructional leadership, and entrepreneurial leadership. Spiritual leadership become a major motive for the principal to make a lot of changes in optimizing the instructional goals development through a lot of entrepreneurship values.