Al-Tanzim: Jurnal Manajemen Pendidikan Islam Vol. 06 No. 03 July (2022) : 763-777 Available online at https://ejournal.unuja.ac.id/index.php/al-tanzim/index Al-Tanzim: Jurnal Manajemen Pendidikan Islam This journal is an open-access article under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. © 2022, the author(s) Democratic Leadership Style of Public and Private Elementary School Principals During The Covid-19 Samsu Riski 1 , Tasman Hamami 2 , M Nurul Yamin 3 1 Islamic Education Management Department, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2 Islamic Religious Education Department, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 3 Islamic Education Management Department, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Email : samsu.riski.psc19@mail.umy.ac.id, tasmanhamami61@gmail.com 2 , moehyamien@umy.ac.id 3 DOI: http://doi.org/10.33650/al-tanzim.v6i3.3542 Received: 28 March2022; Recieved in Revised Form 18 April 2022, Accepted: 12 May 2022, Available online: 1 June 2022 Abstract: This research aims to analyze and understand the democratic leadership style of the head of Ngrukumen public elementary school and Muhammadiyah Girikerto Yogyakarta Private during the Covid-19 pandemic. This research uses a descriptive qualitative approach. Data collection techniques in this study use observation, interviews, and documentation. This study's data analysis techniques use data analysis, data presentation, and drawing conclusions or verification. The analysis and research data results showed that the democratic leadership style of the head of Ngrukumen State Elementary School during the Covid-19 pandemic used a systematic democratic leadership style. The democratic leadership style of the head of Muhammadiyah private elementary school Girikerto Yogyakarta during the pandemic uses a combined democratic combination leadership style between democratic, transactional, and charismatic. Keywords: Leadership, Democratic, Public School, Private School Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis dan mengetahui secara mendalam gaya kepemimpinan demokratis kepala SD negeri Ngrukumen dan Swasta Muhammadiyah Girikerto Yogyakarta pada masa pandemik Covid-19. Penelitian ini memakai jenis kualitatif, dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif diskriptif. Teknik pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan pengamatan, wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Teknik analisis data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan analisis data, presentasi data, dan menarik kesimpulan atau verifikasi. Hasil analisis dan data penelitian menunjukkan bahwa gaya kepemimpinan demokratis kepala SD Negeri Ngrukumen di masa pandemi Covid-19 menggunakan gaya kepemimpinan demokratis yang sistematis. Adapun gaya kepemimpinan demokratis kepala SD swasta Muhammadiyah Girikerto Yogyakarta di masa pandemik dengan menggunakan kombinasi gaya kepemimpinan demokratis yang dikombinasikan antara demokratis, transaksional dan kharismatik. Kata Kunci: Kepemimpinan, Demokratis, Kepala Sekolah Please cite this article in APA style as: Riski, S., Hamami, T., & Yamin, M. N. (2022). Democratic Leadership Style of Public and Private Elementary School Principals During The Covid-19. Al-Tanzim: Jurnal Manajemen Pendidikan Islam, 6(3), 763-777.