Abstract:
The main purpose of the study was to investigate the contributions of school leaders in
enhancing community participation implications for student‟s academic achievement in selected
Woreda of east Hararghe zone. In order to conduct the study quasi-experimental research was
employed.. Therefore, action was taken to improve the approaches of contributions of school
leaders in enhancing community participation by providing the training, orientation and
creating awareness by one class of experimental group for all 32 teachers, 3school leaders,
18community leaders and 3PTA‟s which means a total of 56 participants. Furthermore, the
perception before and after the provision of training, orientation and awareness creation was
analyzed by using pairedsample t-test. At last, the study came up with the following findings: The
teachers perceived that intervention brought about a change in community participation.
Intervention made has developed positive attitudes of teachers towards community participation
in school affairs. The factors affecting community participation were context of the town,
educational level ofthe community, knowledge and skills of the school community in involving
the parents in school affairs, absence of commitment from the side of the school and education
leaders in the area to change the schools environment for best students learning were few once.
It is recommended that, the researchers, student researchers and school teachers and leaders get
the courage to engage in such like practical study with the support of better schools like that of
universities and funding organizations
