The internalization of character values in the boarding-schools should ideally be designed to answering the challenges of the context of Indonesia as a multicultural country. This study aims to reconstruct the character cultivation through the multicultural boarding school system as an internalization model of marine leadership characters. This study employed a single-holistic case study in a Senior High School of Taruna Nala, East Java, Indonesia, that implemented a boarding school system. The data collection was conducted through in-depth interviews, participant observation, and documentary analysis, and the results was presented interactively. The data sources studied were determined by purposive sampling and snowball sampling. The data validity was tested with four criteria: credibility, dependability, confirmability, and transferability. This study found that the character of maritime leadership is the reponsive (tanggap), tough (tanggon), and agile (trengginas) as unique-intelligent characters that must be mastered by senior high schools in Indonesia as a maritime country. To make it happens, the internalization of character values can be done through a cultivation model, like in planting, consisting of: (1) determining the goals, (2) the seeds selection, (3) land cultivation, (4) planting the seeds, (5) maintenance, and (6) fertilization. The model is carried out in full through the boarding system education system.

Charismatic leadership in Islamic boarding schools has a large enough resilience potential to deal with problems. In this case, the COVID-19 pandemic has become a means of proof for two Islamic boarding schools in Madura which are the locus of research related to the leadership of the kyai to bring pesantren to survive the pandemic. The purpose of this study is to find, analyze and provide an interpretation of the form of charismatic leadership based on pesantren resilience during the pandemic and the strategies adopted. This study uses a qualitative approach and the type of multi-case study. Data were collected by interview, documentary studies, and observation. The data analysis technique was carried out twice, namely: individual case analysis and cross case analysis. The results of the study state, first, that charismatic leadership has two main components, namely, (1) that among followers there are unfulfilled needs, goals or aspirations. (2) there is charisma possessed by the leader and the forms of its manifestation are envisioning, energizing, and enabling. Second, the Kyai's strategy based on resilience is to talk about understanding the psychological condition of a person and society.

Kurikulum 2013’s is actually a government program that has been rolled out since then. However, in practice, there are still many teachers who have difficulties to implement it, especially in the case of the implementation of authentic assessments. This was experienced by the teachers of MINU Curungrejo Kepanjen Malang Regency. On this basis, the program focused on helping a teacher to improve understanding of Curriculum 2013 implementation (K-13) that relates to assessment. Various assessments must be carried out, namely; optical assessment, assessment of learning outcomes, Assessment of mastery learning, class assessment, and attitude assessment. The community service method in this activity uses two phases; the School Action Research and the Outcome Mapping. The results of the activities were carried out for six weeks starting from August to September 2018. They showed that intensive training and mentoring through School Action Research (SAR) and Outcome Mapping (OM) can improve the ability of teachers to implement the 2013 curriculum.

Penelitian ini dimaksudkan untuk mengkaji manajemen peningkatan mutu madrasah melalui skema kemitraan tritunggal bagi madrasah sasaran program Kemitraan Pendidikan Australia Indonesia (KPAI) di Kabupaten Malang. Penelitian difokuskan pada tiga hal: (1) landasan hukum kemitraan tritunggal, (2) konstruksi manajemen peningkatan mutu madrasah berbasis kemitraan tritunggal, dan (3) bentuk-bentuk kegiatan manajemen peningkatan mutu madrasah berbasis kemitraan tritunggal. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif metode studi multisitus, Penelitian ini menyasar tiga Madrasah Ibtidaiyah (MI) yang menjadi sasasaran  program KPAI yakni MI Bustanul Uqul, MI Raden Patah, dan MI Thoriqul Huda. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (1) landasan hukum atas program kemitraan tritunggal dilandasi oleh Keputusan Direktur Pendidikan Madrasah Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Islam Kementerian Agama Republik Indonesia, Nomor Dj.I/Dt.I.I/4/Hm.01/578.A/2014, (2) manajemen peningkatan mutu madrasah berbasis kemitraan tritunggal terdiri atas skema pemberian dana pendukung (hibah), pendampingan (mentoring), pelatihan (training) serta tambahan penilaian endline program oleh mentor, trainer, dan asessor independen yang direkrut secara terbuka oleh Madrasah Development Center (MDC) sebagai kepanjangan tangan KPAI di tingkat distrik/propinsi, dan (3) bentuk-bentuk program kemitraan lebih didominasi oleh penyelenggaraan kegiatan-kegiatan non-fisik melalui pendampingan dan pelatihan yang mencakup Pengembangan Madrasah Efektif (PME) dan Manajemen Berbasis Madrasah (MBM) yang selanjutnya melahirkan program pendampingan (mentoring) penyusunan Evaluasi Diri Madrasah (EDM) dan Rencana Kerja Madrasah (RKM), dilanjutkan berbagai pelatihan dan pendampingan lanjutan berupa program hidup sehat , penyusunan dan pengembangan kurikulum madrasah, PAIKEM, program peningkatan kapasitas perpustakaan, serta pengelolaan adinistrasi dan keuangan madrasah.