International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews, Vol 3, no 4, pp 1075-1079, April 2022 International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews Journal homepage: www.ijrpr.com ISSN 2582-7421 AN OUTLINE OF RELEVANT LITERATURE ON INNOVATIVE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP PRACTICES Insha Rasool 1 , Shazia Jan 1 , Syed Inshaallah Tahir 1 1 Ph.D. Candidate, School of Education and Behavioural Science, University of Kashmir ABSTRACT Leadership could be a holistic approach to education. When executed with zeal and vision, it ends up in a greater knowledge of the attitudes of scholars. The renewal and implementation of creative leadership practises could be a significant tool for varsity improvement. The effectiveness of college is vast area of research in Education. The research during this area has primarily intensive on leadership and innovative practices in schools. The leader should catalyse fun and thrill while leading students rather than burden and tedium. School leadership is currently a top priority for education policymakers all round the world. Increased school autonomy, likewise as a stronger specialise in education and performance, have necessitated a rethinking of the role of college leaders. Professionalizing school leadership, supporting current school leaders, and making school leadership an appealing career for future candidates all have space for improvement. The function of leadership is one in all the foremost critical aspects in effective program execution. The supply of current creative instruments has resulted in well-organized procedures in class administration. To remain up with globalisation, educational administrators have integrated creative approaches resulting from the introduction of latest school administration systems. So as to supply exceptional work, leadership plays a vital part within the creative and innovative process. Keywords: Innovation, leadership, leadership practices, professionalize, critical, globalization, creative. 1. INTRODUCTION In education, leadership has long been thought to be extremely important. Educational leadership may be a multifaceted field of study. It’s the foremost researched topic in behavioral science. It’s thought to be a way via which an individual leads others. in line with the definition of Bass (1990a: 19) “leadership consists of influencing the attitudes and behaviors of people and also the interaction within and between groups for the aim of achieving goals.” Net et al. (2004) defines leadership because the processes where by one individual influences others too willingly and eagerly direct their efforts and skills towards attaining define organizational goals. Leadership plays a pivotal role in enhancing organizational creativity (Mumford et. al 2002; Amabile et.al, 2004), launching and driving innovation projects (stoker et.al 2001). Leadership is ultimately related to certain goals. These goals may be broad visions of promising future states, but they will even be very solid targets. In either case, leadership points towards a direction which always directed towards the goal of innovation. Innovative leadership entails introducing something novel, like a brand new concept, approach, technique, process, product, or discovery, so as to deal with current issues and meet people's needs now and within the future. in step with Kouzes and Posner (2013), leadership behavior are often well thought-out by practice including: displaying the way (i.e. setting personal examples), motivating a shared vision (i.e. talking about future goals), thought-provoking the method (i.e. willing to do innovative techniques) permitting others to act (i.e. allowing people to create choice) and promising the center (i.e. praising people for employment well done). In step with Sena (2012) shown that innovation leadership could be a new development to resolve future problems, in generating new ideas in a very certain form practiced for the help of people organizations and its applications will result in change. a replacement wave of research on educational leadership has long-established that the standard of leadership practices in an exceedingly school can make significant differences to the educational and successes of scholars (Davidson, 2014). 2. REVIEW OF LITERATURE The review of literature has provided a short overview of important concepts associated with the leadership, innovation, innovative practices, its techniques and areas and leadership in-schools Leadership The infrastructure, culture, and teachers of a college are all influenced by leadership. Learning outcomes are significantly influenced by direct effects on the organization, culture, and teaching and learning environment. Leadership in education over and another time stands within the spotlight, mostly due to growing accountabilities for varsity principals and also the accountability-driven environment they add (Hitt& Tucker, 2016; Leithwood, 2010; Muijs, 2010). Fullan (2007), leadership is ‘the process of persuading by which a private (or leadership team) prompts a gaggle to chase objectives