School-based management (SBM) as a schooling reform involves delegating some control over budgets, personnel, and instructional program to teachers, parents, and other stakeholders at school level. In the best case, SBM that requests school members fulfill accountability to enhance student performance. Particularly when teachers are empowered to take instructional innovations, SBM is a potential for improving educational practice. Accordingly, SBM may become a key component of recent efforts to reform our educational system. Therefore, this study attempts to explore generating instructional innovations through SBM. The results show that SBM mechanisms are effective for generating instructional innovations. The SBM mechanisms which promote innovative instruction programs should make some necessary conditions in schools . The conditions include: 1.situation analysis for desining innovative instruction programs; 2.shared vision for communicating opinion; 3.power for participating in decision-making ; 4.school-based professional development for empowering teachers; 5.facilitation for encouraging instructional innovations; 6.accountability for monitoring and directing teaching behavior.