Intercorrelation among Administrators’ Governance and Leadership Practices in School Performance: Basis for A Localized Leadership Enhancement Model

School administrators are viewed as the most trusted and accountable people in managing the school, particularly in the public- school setting. Their practices, both seen and unseen, greatly impact the school organization and its performance. At that, administrators’ governance and leadership practices can be manifested in various facets, such as but not limited to, upholding the norms of public servants, laying the foundation of productive partnership with stakeholders, utilizing resources effectively, establishing a school environment that assures academic and behavioral development of the students, teachers and other members of the school community, taking an active part in the teaching-learning process, and scaling up research-enabled best practices, among others. All of these hold their groundwork on the vision, mission, and goals of the Department of Education along with the tenets of TEA Governance and the Philippine Professional Standard for School Heads. In this context, the researcher deemed it necessary to look into how school administrators determine the need for continuous improvement in the active practice of good governance utilizing transparent, ethical, and accountable leadership in achieving successful school management. Likewise, the researcher deemed to investigate whether the school performance and administrators’ governance and leadership practices of school heads are significantly related which was the basis of a Localized Leadership Enhancement Model for the Division of Batangas Province.