PRINCIPAL INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP FOR IMPROVED STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

School leadership factor is an important factor in determining the success of education. Some phenomena show that the role of the school principal indicated unsatisfactory. This is due, still low mastery of competencies principal. In addition, Indonesian student achievement in international areas still indicated a lower category. The purpose of this paper is to describe the principal's leadership influence learning on the success of student learning. This paper is based on relevant literature review covering both conceptual and research. Based on the results of a literature review, there are three dimensions of instructional leadership and each contained subdimensions, such as: defines the school mission: frames the school goals, communicates the school goals; manages the instructional program: supervises and evaluates instruction, coordinates curriculum, and monitors student progress; and to develop a positive school learning climate: protects instructional time, maintains high visibility, provides incentives for teachers, promotes professional development, and provides incentives for learning. The results of the study of instructional leadership principals indicate that the higher the average level of the leadership of higher learning achievement levels of students. The implication of these studies is to increase student achievement can be done through increasing instructional leadership principals.