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The present study aims at a training program for the principals of secondary schools on change management in the light of their change tasks. The study is confined to the principals of the intermediate and secondary stages. This requires much specification of the task first which has become in their final form of 60 task, distributed on the domains of regulation, study, the management of educational and teaching processes, management of teachers and records and school documents and the human and educational relationship with the students, and the relation with the local community and the parents, the activities, the educational and health consulting, the evaluation and examinations, the equipment and the school buildings and the library as (10, 6, 14, 6, 4, 6, 4, 6) respectively. The researcher verified their apparent validity and the constancy of each task by the re-testing method on a sample made up of 30 male and female principals. After determining the general objectives of the program which aim at training program for the principals of secondary schools in performing their tasks in the light of change management tasks, the researcher determined the sub-objectives of the program which include 16 sub-objectives distributed to 10 domains, 9 of them tackle the tasks and one tackle the change and its requirement’s. The researcher depended on the training the principals with the self-training method, by using the program distribution on the school principals included in the sample of evaluation of 30 principals. They were chosen by the method of random selection from each directorate of the General Education Directorate in Baghdad governorate according to the size in the research community distributed to the Directorate of Baghdad Rusafa the first, Rusafa the second, Rusafa the third, Karakh the first, Karakh the second and Karakh the third in (4, 8, 2, 4, 6, 6) principals respectively as 10 male principals and 20 female principals. After the distribution of the sample members after measuring of the performance of the sample (pretest) by the using of others’ evaluation. It depends on the evaluation of the two teachers in the field of the school management according to the average scores of the assistants’ evaluation and two teacher evaluation for the principals for each task. Before applying the program, the evaluation results of the principals’ performance included in the sample of the study showed that their performance was average and did not come up to the desired level of change management except in the domains of (evaluation and examination). Their performance was poor in comparison with the theoretical average at the level of 0.05. After the passage of a year of training so that the principals’ performance appears on all the tasks that extend to the whole scholastic year, the evaluation was repeated of these tasks. The results of the t-test show the excellence of the principals’ performance after training as follows: 1) At the level of 0.01 in the domain of regulation, study, the management of educational and teaching processes, the human and educational and the relation with the local community the activities, the educational and health consulting, the evaluation and examinations. 2) At the level of 0.01 management of schools. 3) At the level of 0.01 in management of teachers and records and school documents and relationship with the students and parents, and the domain of the equipment and the school buildings and the library. In the light of the procedures of the structure of the training program and the result of evaluation the researcher concluded that tasks of the secondary school principals that required by the change management are more variable and diverse than the current management. The self-training program of the principals on these tasks. Thus, the researcher recommends the Ministry of education to the necessity of going in the direction of change management in the secondary schools and the training of the male and female principals on this management by depending on self-training according to the prepared program. The researcher suggests making subsequent studies of this study on the principals of primary stage pupils and a study of the cognitive variables that can contribute successfully to change management and a study of the change management in some variables. (Author’s abstract)