The purpose of this research was to develop a management model of administrative innovation in Thai education institutions. The research method is divided into 3 steps: 1) Studying components and guidelines for developing a management model of administrative innovation in education institutions. 2) Creating and evaluating the appropriateness of a management model of administrative innovation in education institutions. And 3) Assessing the feasibility and the usefulness of a management model of administrative innovation in education institutions. The results showed that a management model of administrative innovation education institutionsconsisted of five components: 1) objectives, 2) principles3) input factors in administrative innovation, 4) process of administrative innovation,and 5) innovative output. The results of the suitability assessment of the model, the experts agreed that the model is appropriate. The results of the feasibility and the usefulness assessment of the model from theschool administrators, confirmed that both were at the highest level.

management; innovation; school