Gebrewahd Abrha2025-06-272024-09-25https://repository.mu.edu.et/handle/123456789/73610.82589/muir-64810.82589/muir-64810.82589/muir-648The purpose of this study is to assess the practice of instructional leadership in secondary schools of North western zone of Tigray. Instructional leadership has great role on the realization of quality education in our country Ethiopia. In actual practice, the overall performance of instructional leaders was not encouraging students and was not making instructional quality. To analyze the assessment of the practice of instructional leadership, on secondary schools of North West zone. This study was related with non-experimental design of research and also it is descriptive type of research. The Research designs employed in the study is mixed approach of research (both qualitative and quantitative methods).The sampling techniques employed are purposive sample techniques for school principals, supervisors, and Simple random sampling for Students and teachers. The sample size of the research is including eight secondary school principals out of sixteen principals, four supervisors out of four supervisors, 226 teachers out of 452 teachers and 763 students out of 3811 students. An in-depth interview was conducted with the stakeholders of the school who was selected through purposive sampling. The quantitative approach is address using of the questionnaire (closed ended). Participants used for the closed ended questionnaire was selected using simple random sampling. After the data is collected using the different tools, they were analyzed through both quantitative description and qualitative explanation. The descriptive statistics were used to describe the results obtained using frequency and percentile rank. The results of this study revealed that, the current practices and effectiveness of instructional leadership on the issue of setting the school vision was rated as low performance and the instructional leaders were show weak practice and implement in the practice and instruct of the school staffs to all stakeholder. In sum, the practices of instructional leadership found conclusively that, the North-Western zone school leaders were setting clearly the school vision and mission, clarifying the core values and belief, and professional development programs were moderate practiced, and also cooperation and commitment, promoting school change, character of school principal, the capacity of teachers, the participation of students in school activities and the practices of supervisions were weak utilized and practiced .enAssessmentInstructional LeadershipSecondary SchoolThesis