Implementation of Strategies in Shaping Effective and Superior Schools ( Multisite Study at SMP Islam al-Azhaar Tulungagung and SMP Negeri 1 Tulungagung ) Tri

Implementation of strategies informing effective schools is a follow-up to the process of formulating strategies (planning) by various parties responsible for the process of effective school development. The implementation of the strategy is an action to achieve the educational objectives (effective schools) through the stages that have been set in the form of program structure, budget, operational standards, supervision, and evaluation. This research explore in-depth the implementation of strategies in Junior High School (SMP) Islam al-Azhaar Tulungagung and Junior High School (SMP) Negeri 1 Tulungagung. This research uses qualitative research methods, using phenomenological field studies. Meanwhile, data collection techniques are conducted through in-depth interviews, observations, and passive participants in the field as well as using other literature relevant to the concept of implementing strategies informing effective schools. The results showed that the implementation of strategies in shaping schools was effectively carried out through internal processes and external processes. This process will result in effective learning, effective teaching, and a conducive environment. Key Word: Effective Schools, Implementation of Strategies Abstrak Implementasi strategi dalam membentuk sekolah efektif merupakan tindak lanjut dari proses perumusan strategi (perencanaan) oleh berbagai pihak yang bertanggung jawab atas proses pembangunan sekolah efektif. Penerapan strategi merupakan tindakan untuk mencapai tujuan pendidikan (sekolah yang efektif) melalui tahapan yang telah ditetapkan dalam bentuk struktur program, anggaran, standar operasional, pengawasan dan evaluasi. Penelitian ini menggali secara mendalam pelaksanaan strategi di Sekolah Menengah Pertama (SMP) Islam al-Azhaar Tulungagung dan Sekolah Menengah Pertama (SMP) Negeri 1 Tulungagung. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif, dengan pendekatan studi lapangan fenomenologis. Sementara itu, teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui wawancara mendalam, observasi, dan peserta pasif di lapangan serta menggunakan literatur lain yang relevan dengan konsep penerapan strategi dalam membentuk sekolah efektif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan, bahwa implementasi strategi dalam membentuk sekolah dilakukan secara efektif melalui proses internal dan eksternal. Proses ini akan menghasilkan pembelajaran efektif, pengajaran efektif dan lingkungan yang kondusif. Kata Kunci: Implementasi Strategi, Sekolah Efektif Implementation of Strategies in Shaping Effective and Superior Schools (Multisite Study at SMP Islam al-Azhaar Tulungagung and SMP Negeri 1 Tulungagung) Oleh: Tri Prasetiyo Utomo, Imam Saerozi Jurnal Intelektual: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Studi Keislaman Volume 11, Nomor 1, April 2021 P ag e4 7 Introduction Effective school building strategies are one of the alternative solutions to continue to play a role, compete, and survive in educating the nation's children. An effective school is a school that is able to deliver its students to achieve significant achievement progress. These achievements include academic and nonacademic achievements. Creative schools will certainly do their utmost to answer all challenges, needs, and social psychos that are expected by users of educational services, namely parents or guardians. Cooperation between community elements, stakeholders, and solid institutional managers will certainly produce excellent programs in schools. These programs are alternative measures to answer the challenges, needs, and psycho-social community users of educational services. Thus, ijtihad and the preparation of strategic measures to support the formation of effective schools are needed to continue to play a role, compete, and survive in educating the lives of the nation's children according to the needs of their time. The position of educational institutions in Indonesia is faced with two dilemmas, namely significant technological 1 Peter Mortimore, School Effectiveness and the Management of Effective Learning and Teaching (London: The Internaional Congress Four School advances and the conservation of religious values of religiosity that are quite strong. First, the advancement of technology builds paradigms in the technological society and the advancement of civilization is everything and means to survive in the future. Second, conservative religious values of religiosity are quite visceral. This situation is considered by many religious rituals that are quite developed in the community. These include ceremonial activities of grand recitation, sectarian traditions and religious organizations, as well as a lifestyle in dress that reflects religious values. The first state (technological advancement) demands that people live dynamically, adaptively, and creatively to answer the challenges of rapid change. While conservative values of religiosity become a means of strengthening character, morality, and ethics that must be maintained continuously. Therefore, the effort to conduct synthesis between the two became the efforts of educational institutions to present updated educational programs in order to answer the changes and challenges of the times. Effectiveness and Improvement, Noorkoping, Sweden, 1993). 8. Implementation of Strategies in Shaping Effective and Superior Schools (Multisite Study at SMP Islam al-Azhaar Tulungagung and SMP Negeri 1 Tulungagung) Oleh: Tri Prasetiyo Utomo, Imam Saerozi Jurnal Intelektual: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Studi Keislaman Volume 11, Nomor 1, April 2021 P ag e4 8 Effective educational institutions will strive to present creative learning programs. The program will not run optimally without the support of clear, planned, and in accordance with established operational standards. This related to regard to the implementation of strategies in forming effective schools, it is necessary to display guidelines for implementing strategies in forming effective schools. Implementation of strategies in forming effective schools are the stages of implementing institutional programs that are prepared based on, planning, implementing strategies, and evaluating strategies.


Introduction
Effective school building strategies are one of the alternative solutions to continue to play a role, compete, and survive in educating the nation's children.
An effective school is a school that is able to deliver its students to achieve significant Effectiveness and Improvement, Noorkoping, Sweden, 1993). 8.

Implementation of strategies in
forming effectively is carried out with a process approach. The process can be categorized into two groups, namely, the internal process of the school and the external process of the school. Here are both processes; activities' students will know the history of life and the example that can be taken to be a guide for them. Objects that can be used as studies are prophets, scholars, and heroes who contribute to the country.

b. Excellent and Intensive Classes
Intensive guidance is a special mentoring activity conducted by teachers of certain subjects in order to escort and deliver students to the peak of achievement.
This special guidance process is carried out on certain students who will participate in academic activities. With special guidance,

2) Silent Reading
Silent reading is a silent or quiet reading activity conducted by students before starting the teaching and learning process. The implementation of this program will be guided or accompanied by the class guardian or the teacher in question in the class. In this program, students are trained and used to love and like reading culture. This reading is an academic culture that must be owned by every student.

School External Process a. Try out
Try out is a training program of national exam questions that is predicted to come out when the national exam is held.
With the try out ability of students will feel and get used to working on national exam questions. Try outs are implemented in the form of independent (internal schools that design predictions of questions) and private try outs or in collaboration with the school's external tutoring services. Each of these institutions will make prediction questions and be tested against students. The result of try out is used as a benchmark to find out how far the learners understand certain subject matter. From the try out will also be known the achievement of the rank/rank of each student. The achievement of the rank or rank is used as evaluation material by the curriculum assessment team, if below average it will be followed up on the tutoring program (tutoring). Meanwhile, if the value of students is above average, then the following task is to do enrichment or improved to achieve the desired goals by the institution. So, try out organized by

b. Strengthening Foreign Languages
Foreign language education programs that are summarized in intensive activities and habituation in schools become an alternative in developing effective schools.
Intensive implementation is carried out in extracurricular activities. Meanwhile, the habituation of this activity is carried out every day in the classroom and outside the classroom. The purpose of this program is, students are invited to love and get used to the international language. Through the international language, students will easily understand the materials in the classroom related to English and Arabic. So, the international language application applied through intensive programs and habituation will help the formation of effective schools.

c. Tahfizul Quran
Tahfizul Quran is a flagship program that becomes one of the competency distinctions. Distinction competency is a program that distinguishes from one school to another. As discussed earlier, strategic management seeks to conduct assessment actions to determine the strengths and 12 Mortimore, School Effectiveness and the Management of Effective Learning and Teaching.8. opportunities that can be used to win the competition. Efforts to explore competency until finding an idea and followed up in a program that will give birth to an effective school. Tahfizul

Environment
The implementation of strategies in forming effective schools is conducted through several stages, namely derived from the philosophy of superior achievement and character and passion of the Rabbani generation. From this philosophy will be breakdown in the realm of teaching and learning effectively. The effective process is sorted into two forms, the internal process of the school and the external process of the school with the results of forming an effective school.
The description above illustrates a pattern of effective learning models,