Dissertation (MA Education)This study sought to investigate the roles of school boards in managing teachers discipline problems in secondary schools, where Rorya District was taken as a case study. The study was guided by McGregor Theory X and Y. The study adopted across sectional survey design. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to obtain five (5) schools and fifty six (56) respondents respectively. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods by the use of open-ended questionnaire, semi structured interviews and documentary review. The data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively and the results were presented through tables, graphs, percentages, frequencies and in narrative forms. The findings for this study shows that absenteeism was the most indiscipline committed by teachers, it led by 33 (58.9%) others were sex violation, doing business during working hours among others. The most methods used by school management to manage teachers misconducts were, warning, others methods were provision of laws and regulations and disciplinary transfer among others. The study also found that the challenges for effective teachers discipline management by school boards were of managerial skills among board members, poor support from the DEO, TSD and inspectors. The most suggested solutions to overcome the above challenges were effective training of board members among others. And recommendations made were to review the Education Act, with the view to empower the school boards to make them deal determinatively with cases of errant teachers as it is stipulated in the Educational Act of 1995, to provide training and they should be paid well to motivate them.