Introduction: School management and leadership are crucial. Leadership and administration in schools today are urgent, serious, and difficult as it struggles to meet schooling expectations. This study determined and analyzed the administrative culture in terms of instructional leadership competence and administrative skills of school heads as well as the performance of public elementary schools, after which a scaffolding plan was designed.

 

Methods: The study used Research and Development (R & D) as well as descriptivecorrelational method of research using systematic random sampling among school heads of the Schools Division of Ilocos Norte. Three sets of instruments namely School Heads Instructional Leadership Competence Instrument (SHILCI), Administrative Skills Survey Questionnaire (ASSQ), School-Based Management Assessment, Processes and Tools (SBM-APAT) were used to gather data which were analyzed with frequency counts, means and Pearson Product Moment Correlation.

 

Results: The public elementary school heads who are middle-aged, predominately male, married, mostly are School Principal-I, relatively young in their present position as school heads, bachelor’s degree with MA units, with few trainings in administration, agreed that they are Moderately Competent in their administrative culture on instructional leadership competence and administrative skills. The public elementary schools are in maturing level of practice in the School-Based management performance. The administrative culture of school heads is significantly related to the performance of the public elementary schools.

 

Conclusions: Based on the results a Scaffolding Plan was prepared, validated, and proposed to enhance the administrative culture and performance of elementary schools. The Scaffolding Plan was evaluated by the panel as highly valid on its objectives, strategies, time frame, persons involved, budgetary requirements and expected outcomes.

 

Keywords: Administrative Culture, Instructional Leadership, Research and Development, Correlation, Administrative Skills, Scaffolding Plan

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