The Principal's Leadership Role in Creating a Student Literacy Culture

Abstract

Literacy is a means for students to increase knowledge, understand learning material, and practice school learning, through basic activities, namely reading. For students, the role of literacy is very important to provide learning experience and the basis for developing their own skills which will later become a provision for facing education at the next level even in the world of work. In order to realize creating and improving the quality of student literacy, the cooperation of all school members is needed. school principals need to carry out their leadership role optimally by inviting school members to work together, so that efforts to create a literacy culture go well, and students' literacy skills are getting better and of better quality. The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the leadership role of the principal in creating a culture of student literacy. While the writing uses literature studies, namely reviewing and critically examining knowledge, ideas or findings from several written sources that have previously been made. the stages are: selecting topics of discussion, finding literature sources, classifying materials and review results, and writing process. Meanwhile, the data analysis used was content analysis with a qualitative descriptive model. So the result is that the role of the principal consists of: 1) as a policy maker; 2) as a motivator; 3) as a role model; 4) as the person in charge. namely reviewing and critically examining a knowledge, idea or discovery from several written sources that have previously been made. the stages are: selecting topics of discussion, finding literature sources, classifying materials and review results, and writing process. Meanwhile, the data analysis used was content analysis with a qualitative descriptive model. So the result is that the role of the principal consists of: 1) as a policy maker; 2) as a motivator; 3) as a role model; 4) as the person in charge. namely reviewing and critically examining a knowledge, idea or discovery from several written sources that have previously been made. the stages are: selecting topics of discussion, finding literature sources, classifying materials and review results, and writing process. Meanwhile, the data analysis used was content analysis with a qualitative descriptive model. So the result is that the role of the principal consists of: 1) as a policy maker; 2) as a motivator; 3) as a role model; 4) as the person in charge. analysis of the data used is to use content analysis with a qualitative descriptive model. So the result is that the role of the principal consists of: 1) as a policy maker; 2) as a motivator; 3) as a role model; 4) as the person in charge. analysis of the data used is to use content analysis with a qualitative descriptive model. So the result is that the role of the principal consists of: 1) as a policy maker; 2) as a motivator; 3) as a role model; 4) as the person in charge.