Internal Stakeholders’ Implementation Practices in School Improvement Plan (SIP)

The School Improvement Plan (SIP) serves as a strategic framework that guides schools in addressing priority needs and achieving continuous improvement through stakeholder participation and collaborative governance. Anchored on stakeholder theory and distributed leadership theory, this qualitative single case study explored the implementation practices and challenges of internal stakeholders in the School Improvement Plan (SIP) in selected public high schools in Maco North District, Davao de Oro. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with three school heads and three teachers who were directly involved in SIP implementation. The participating schools served as embedded sources of perspectives within the single bounded case of SIP implementation in public high schools in Maco North District. Thematic analysis revealed three major implementation practices: stakeholder shared ownership, collaborative communication dynamics, and collective empowerment practices. These practices fostered active participation, shared responsibility, collaborative decision-making, effective communication, accountability, transparency, and stakeholder empowerment in achieving school improvement goals. However, the findings also identified significant challenges, including workforce limitations affecting sip implementation, communication challenges affecting involvement, and stakeholder empowerment challenges. Specifically, insufficient manpower, limited resources, communication barriers, delayed dissemination of information, and limited stakeholder engagement affected the effective implementation of SIP programs and activities. Despite contextual differences among participating schools, internal stakeholders shared common experiences regarding collaboration, participation, accountability, and collective responsibility in implementing SIP initiatives. The study concludes that successful SIP implementation is strengthened through meaningful stakeholder engagement, collaborative leadership, effective communication, shared accountability, and stakeholder empowerment. It further recommends strengthening stakeholder-centered implementation frameworks, enhancing capacity-building initiatives, improving resource mobilization strategies, addressing manpower constraints, and promoting effective communication mechanisms to support sustainable and effective SIP implementation.

School Improvement Plan, stakeholder participation, distributed leadership, stakeholder theory, school improvement.

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