Academic servant leadership in lockdown: a case study of digital teaching-learning during the Pandemic Covid-19 in a Christian school in Indonesia

Servant leadership is believed to be an effective academic leadership approach. Teachers who embrace servant leadership are not only giving instructions for their students but also sharing their lives as the inspiration for the growth of these students. This research has the purpose to investigate the digital effort done by teachers as they have to lead and teach during lockdown. This research which will employ the theories of Servant Leadership Behavioral Scale and distance learning technology effectiveness aims to answer three research questions: 1) How do the students perceived their learning experience during the lockdown period 2) How do the teachers ensure that their students learn adequately during the lockdown period? and 3) How do the headmasters lead their teachers to ensure that these teachers teach effectively during the lockdown period. A mixed method of interview and survey is used to gather the necessary data. The result shows that digital teaching method has limits namely teachers reflection time, authentic growth, peer interactions and lack of infrastructure stability. Balance parents involvement, hybrid teaching-learning methods and intentional caring both for teachers and students are encouraged to ensure that the educational process is indeed growing both the teachers and students.