Obaid bin Abdullah Al-Subaie
The current study aimed at revealing the degree of appreciation of educational administration and leadership specialists of the importance and possibility of enhancing the role of educational administration departments in developing the professional competencies of leaders of public schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the degree of their appreciation for the possibility of implementing the proposed program to develop the professional competencies of leaders of public schools, and to provide a proposal for a program to develop the professional competencies of leaders of public schools. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher relied on the descriptive survey approach, and prepared a questionnaire to collect data from the study sample, which consisted of 31 educational administration and leadership specialists in Saudi universities. The results of the study revealed that the degree of appreciation of educational administration and leadership specialists of the importance and possibility of the educational administration departments’ contribution to developing the professional competencies of the leaders of public schools was very large, as well as the degree of their appreciation for the possibility of implementing the proposed program to develop the professional competencies of the leaders of public schools, in light of the results of the study, a proposal for a program to develop the professional competencies of leaders of public schools was presented.