School Heads’ Effectiveness in Fulfilling their Leadership Roles in Tanzania Public Secondary Schools: Prospects and Challenges at Kahama Town Council.

This studied participants’ perspective on the experienced prospects and challenges facing school heads’ effectiveness in fulfilling their leadership roles within Kahama town council. The raised main question, what have been prospects and challenges among school heads in fulfilling their leadership roles effectively? The post-positivists’ paradigm, qualitative approach and exploratory research design were used in this study. The sample size was 49 research participants. The data collection and analysis were done through triangulated methods: questionnaire instrument and interview guides. Data were analysed by triangulated methods, of Microsoft Office Excel and calculator for questionnaire data, while the qualitative data were sorted, categorised, coded, compared and contrasted. Findings revealed that roles of school heads include: unifying institution workers to work hard and supervising school resources; democratic leadership style, is preferred in studied schools. Also, different education levels among teachers in studied secondary schools; financial constraints are the leading leadership challenges. The in-service leadership workshops training are the best-recommended solution for faced challenges in studied schools among the school heads. As well, the democratic leadership style be used regularly in their activities to increase teachers’ participation in decision making. High education level qualifications should be considered in appointing school heads in the town council. The comparative study on similar problem be done in other districts of Shinyanga with larger sample preferably at the primary school level. Keywords: School Heads, Effectiveness, and Leadershi