Abstract: The main goal of this study was to assess the adoption of the Philippine Professional Standards for School Heads (PPSH) and describe the challenges and strengths based on the lived experiences of the public elementary school heads from the Bislig City Division. It is considered a complete enumeration of 51 public elementary school heads in the Bislig City Division for the quantitative part. The 15 school heads included in the FGD were chosen based on the following inclusion criteria; (1) has been designated as school head for at least 5 years, (2) eight of the school heads should be passers of NQESH, (3) seven of the school heads are non-passers of NQESH, and (4) voluntary participation in the FGD through the signed informed consent form.