The purpose of the study was to assess School leadership development process？and is implementations in Oromia regional state Bale zone public secondary schools. To achieve this purpose, a survey research design, in focus, was used. Both probability and non-probability sampling techniques were used to select participants from various groups. To this effect, total of 16 secondary schools were selected. There are total of 1046 populations from these 367 teachers selected by simple random and 41 school leaders were selected by available？sampling techniques. Among 375 questionnaires distributed to secondary？schools teacher and school leaders, 346 (92%) were properly filled and returned for analysis. Quantitative data have？been presented via mean standardization and independent sample t test data analysis methods were used. The？major findings of the study revealed that the current implementations of？school leadership development process in the study area showed that school leadership development implementations has problems specially in selection, recruitment, assignment of school leaders for development before and after development. School leadership development process during implementations？mainly dominated by political affiliation and intimacy were seen during？school？leaders recruitment, selection and assignment in the zone. The researcher？recommended that secondary school leaders’ selection, recruitment and assignment had better implemented on the basis of clear and well defined criteria. The Education office has to adjust open access and diversified methods to invite potential applicants; they have to give the value to academic qualification merit based during selecting.
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