Instructional Leadership in School-Based Management of DepEd Schools in Samar Island: Systematic Approach Review

The purpose of this research paper is to provide a review of the systematic approach design on instructional leadership in school-based management of DepEd schools in Samar Island. The research methodology paper draws from the database of reviews previously conducted over the past seven years of instructional leadership in the context of different practices, and styles in school-based management. This study used a systematic approach review performed using four phases in Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) that emphasizes a specific topic and selects relevant literature using content analysis based on the abstract of selected articles in instructional leadership. The study revealed that instructional leadership should provide technical assistance to teachers, innovating teaching and learning that ensure quality instruction in learning, growth of learners, and professional development of teachers. Leadership fosters decision-making by strategically balancing, competing priorities, having visionary goals, empathy with constituents, and resistance to change in all educational endeavors. In addition, different abstract literature reviews develop the existence of several challenges and limitations of instructional leadership in school-based management. The gaps and challenges have been recognized in the reviews. It shows high-quality research reviews conducted in instructional leadership simplify to administrators, teachers, students, and the community that contribute quality of education in school-based management. The implications of this study are highlighting systematic methods reviews to provide decision-making, and guidance to enhance knowledge in more systematic ways of instructional leadership in school-based management. The originality and value of this research paper lies in its adaptation and application for the recent reviews on social sciences to the field of instructional leadership in school-based management such as instructional leadership: practices, school performance, internal and external stakeholders, and community-based resources.