The latest "˜freedom to learn' policy, issued by the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, must be implemented by educational institutions at various levels. The principals played significant roles such as community empowerment to utilize all resources in the schools to support the policy. The research aimed to describe the principals' efforts in improving community participation in the school and to describe the social involvement in facilitating the freedom to learn at schools. This study employed a qualitative approach with a multi-case research design, and it was conducted in Indonesia, particularly in Tana Tidung Regency in North Kalimantan, Bondowoso Regency in East Java, and Malang City in East Java. The data collection techniques included in-depth interviews and document studies, and to validate the data used a credibility technique. The data validation through the credibility technique was carried out by conducting triangulation, checking members, and improving the persistence and adequacy of reference materials. The cross-case data analysis in this study applied a constant comparative method. The analysis was conducted in all three cases resulted in the provisional findings, continued by data comparison that would later be found by the three cases. The results of this research were the principals' efforts in enhancing community participation through cooperation with several related parties. The principals were regarded as role models in supporting the "˜freedom to learn' policy and building cooperation with related partners. The kind of community participation varied based on the uniqueness of each region.

Artikel ini bertujuan mengakaji peluang dan tantangan pengembangan madrasah, khususnya yang berbasis pesantren. Artikel dibuat dengan meninjau dan mengumpulkan informasi dari berbagai referensi baik buku, artikel dan jurnal yang digunakan sebagai bahan dalam mempelajari dan menambah wawasan secara konseptual yang berhubungan dengan peluang dan tantangan pengembangan madrasah yang berbasis pesantren di era modern. Madrasah merupakan salah satu lembaga pendidikan alternatif dan mempunyai kesempatan yang sama untuk menjadi lembaga pendidikan yang diperhitungkan dalam dinamika perubahan sosial. Namun demikian sebagai sebuah konsekuensi logis, madrasah harus melakukan upaya-upaya agar mampu mengembangakan setiap sektor dalam rangka mewujudkan tujuan organisasinya. Upaya pengembangan madrasah di pesantren harus bisa mewujudkan kriteria pendidikan unggulan yang akan melahirkan sumber daya manusia yang memiliki kapabilitas dalam penguasaan pengetahuan dan teknologi yang dijiwai oleh nilai-nilai luhur keagamaan. Perwujudan madrasah sebagai institusi yang mampu memberikan pelayanan berupa pendidikan yang unggul, maka pesantren perlu diarahkan pemaduan antara keunggulan dalam bidang intelektual dan keterampilan dengan keunggulan dalam bidang pengetahuan keagamaan termasuk di dalamnya keunggulan dalam bidang kepribadian, keimanan dan ketaqwaan, dengan cara membuka diri dan akomodatif terhadap aspirasi dan tuntutan masyarakat serta mengaktualisasi komitmen dalam membangun pendidikan bermutu secara integral dalam seluruh proses pelaksanaan pendidikan melalui habituasi untuk mampu memahami realitas pendidikan sesuai dengan perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi. AbstractThis article aims to examine the opportunities and challenges of developing madrasah, especially those based on Islamic boarding schools (pesantren). Articles are made by reviewing and gathering information from various references both books, articles, and journals that are used as a material in learning and conceptually adding insight related to the opportunities and challenges of developing pesantren-based madrasah in the modern era. Madrasah is an alternative educational institution and has the same opportunity to become an educational institution that is taken into account in the dynamics of social change. However, as a logical consequence, madrasah must make efforts to be able to develop each sector in order to realize the goals of the organization. Madrasah's development efforts in Islamic boarding school must be able to realize the criteria of the superior education that will give birth to human resources who have the capability in mastering knowledge and technology that are imbued with religious noble values. The realization of madrasah as an institution that is able to provide services in the form of superior education, the Islamic boarding school needs to be directed towards the integration of intellectual and skill excellence in the field of religious knowledge including excellence in the fields of personality, faith, and devotion, by opening up and accommodating towards aspirations and demands of the community and actualizing commitments to build quality education in an integrated manner throughout the whole process of implementing education through habituation to be able to understand the reality of education in accordance with the development of science and technology.

Today’s website is a primary need for institutions so that their organization is widely known by the public. The use of websites is also growing in various fields. Principal induction programs are also currently developing which leads to the use of information technology. Website-based induction programs are important to implement. The purpose of this research is to create a website that can be used by principals to participate in induction programs. This research was carried out with a development research design. The research result is a website that can be used by school principals to improve school performance and can also measure the level of instructional leadership. Respondents in this study were 145 school principals. The results of measuring the instructional leadership variable are included in the good category, with a mean score of 49.70. The website of the induction program for school principals has the potential to continue to be developed according to the needs and developments in education management science.

The internalization of character values in the boarding-schools should ideally be designed to answering the challenges of the context of Indonesia as a multicultural country. This study aims to reconstruct the character cultivation through the multicultural boarding school system as an internalization model of marine leadership characters. This study employed a single-holistic case study in a Senior High School of Taruna Nala, East Java, Indonesia, that implemented a boarding school system. The data collection was conducted through in-depth interviews, participant observation, and documentary analysis, and the results was presented interactively. The data sources studied were determined by purposive sampling and snowball sampling. The data validity was tested with four criteria: credibility, dependability, confirmability, and transferability. This study found that the character of maritime leadership is the reponsive (tanggap), tough (tanggon), and agile (trengginas) as unique-intelligent characters that must be mastered by senior high schools in Indonesia as a maritime country. To make it happens, the internalization of character values can be done through a cultivation model, like in planting, consisting of: (1) determining the goals, (2) the seeds selection, (3) land cultivation, (4) planting the seeds, (5) maintenance, and (6) fertilization. The model is carried out in full through the boarding system education system.

This study aimed to examine the relationship between the principal's instructional leadership, differentiated instruction, community of practice, and student wellbeing. This study uses multiple regression analysis with the consistent PLS. The results showed that instructional leadership has a positive relationship with differentiated instruction and a community of practice. Differentiated instruction and community of practice have a positive relationship with student wellbeing.

This study aims to determine the relationship between learning leadership and teacher performance. The research was conducted at Batu City State Senior High School (SMA Negeri Kota Batu), Indonesia. This study uses a quantitative approach. Data analysis using descriptive correlation. The sample in this study consisted of 112 teachers. The instrument used to measure the research variables was a questionnaire. The results of this study concluded that there was a positive relationship between learning leadership and teacher performance.