Abstract
School Managers in Kenya are a group faced with an array of emerging and challenging
roles in a rapidly changing society. This is coupled with increasingly great expectation
by education stakeholders that school managers and the human resource they lead will
ensure retention and successful completion of school by every Kenyan child. However,
it is the contention of this paper that school managers may not meet the cut if they are
not cognizant of their changing roles and the new skills they need to develop. This
paper sets out to examine these challenging roles and the accompanying skills required.
The argument is premised on the view that one can best handle challenges they are
clearly aware of. The authors hope that the ideas raised will inform educational
stakeholders and especially, school managers and educational policy formulators.