Abstract:
This study was done on the link between principal leadership style and teachers continuous professional
development in secondary schools of Addis Ababa city administration Akaki sub-city. The study was delimited
to 11 secondary schools and 220 teachers and principals. The data was collected by questionnaire and
interview. The data analyses performed using descriptive and inferential statistics for independent and
dependent variables. The result shows coaching leadership style has low mean value relative to others
independent variables that are listed from this research. The respondents are not satisfied about coaching
leadership in selected schools. Directing leadership (3.4091) has moderate level of mean value. This shows
that the directing leadership style have moderate level of agreement from respondents on CPD from selected
schools. On the other hand CPD, delegating leadership and facilitating leadership are scored above 3.80
mean values of descriptive statistics. This shows that the respondents are highly satisfied and organization
were did seriously on those directing styles. From inferential statistics regression result shows, Delegating
leadership, directing leadership, Coaching leadership and Facilitating leadership makes the strongest unique
contribution to explaining the dependent variable (CPD). This revealed that, if the independent variable like"
Delegating leadership Directing leadership , Coaching leadership and Facilitating leader ship are
statistically significant and would lead to a 0.792, 0.410, 0.056 and 0.044 unit increase the level of continuous
professional development. Therefore the study recommended that the concerned body will insure that
principals skills, knowledge, style and attitudes to improve teachers continuous professional development.
