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Education transformation in Malaysia's Education Development Plan (PPPM) and continuous change to improve the effectiveness of the education system, demanding high-performance school leaders. Leadership was found to have a significant positive impact on student achievement. Many studies have found that the practice of instructional leadership style of principals can produce effective teaching and learning among teachers and pupils in turn for outstanding academic performance. While leaders practicing transformation efforts continuously have significant relationships with their emotional intelligence competencies. The leader's emotional intelligence competence is a skill that can and should be learned by an organization leader in which it will be able to help them make better decisions in subsequent work to improve organizational achievement. Instructional leadership and emotional intelligence competencies are among the key factors studied in determining the academic performance of the school. The results of this study have confirmed that instructional leadership practice and emotional competence provide a significant correlation to the academic performance of the school.
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