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The aim of this study was to determine how school principals use their potential creativity according to teachers’ perception who work in primary education and to put forward how creativity of principals of educational organizations. Both principals and employees must develop new ideas and criticize the fields that are inconvenient and insufficient in solving the problems that the educational organizations come across with. Moreover it is expected that principals and the teachers should try to solve the problems that are come acrossed with and to provide benefits from the results of the work. In order to improvement and development of educational organizations, the individuals who display their creativities are needed. In this respect, the school principals have an important mission in bringing out and using creativity. This study was carried out with 226 teachers who work in 9 different primary schools in Gebze. As measurements, 5-likert-type questionnaire of 28 items have been used to understand teachers’ perception of the school management’s creativity and a survey which includes 8-items was also used to evaluate the perception of individual creativity. To analyze mean, persantage, One Way ANOVA, and Post Hoc HSD statistical test were used. According to the results, the teachers generally think that the school principals have potential creativities and they use this capability in a positive way. However, in this study, as an important feature it was considered that potential creativity of principals, who work in low social-economic schools, were low and the environment of the school was found to be an important factor in determining creativity of principals. Key words: Creativity, school principal, perception, capability.

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