Topics discussed include the importance of student agency, the use of
distributed leadership in schools, and community engagement in education.
The implication for those in formal leadership roles is that they have a key role to play in creating the conditions
for distributed leadership to occur.
This article discusses the use of
distributed leadership as a method for teachers to work collaboratively and to participate in the administration of their schools.
Her intention was to determine whether program graduates were applying the things they learned
about distributed leadership in their schools.
They develop the capacity to promote professional learning, build collaborative teams and
distribute leadership within their building, and they lead the entire school faculty in setting high expectations for students.
Furthermore, coaching principals on building shared understanding and relational trust is crucial to starting and
sustaining distributed leadership efforts aimed at helping principals prioritize the multiple demands of the job.
When studying student voice for my dissertation research on school governance, I was only able to locate one
distributed leadership study including students perspective, ideas, and actions.
The fourth pillar of the model is intended to hold schools accountable for creating the organizational structures and culture — through approaches
like distributed leadership and professional development — to improve outcomes for students.
As the demands on principals continue to grow and more schools turn to
distributed leadership models, teachers are increasingly embracing more multifaceted leadership roles.
Many of these studies have identified the importance
of distributed leadership as a potential contributor to positive change and school improvement.
They help create the enabling conditions
for distributed leadership that allows teacher leaders to lead proven, content - specific, equity - based teacher development.
In particular, the author emphasized the notion of
distributed leadership as interactions between people and their situation, not a mere product of the leader's knowledge and skill.
Summary: This article talks about the importance of
distributing leadership from the principal to others including teacher - leaders and instructional coaches as well as the importance of providing training to those who are taking on these additional leadership responsibilities.
John Clippinger, a scholar of
distributed leadership at the Harvard Law School, proposes that these include (but are not limited to) the following «archetypal» leadership roles:
When
distributed leadership works well, individuals are accountable and responsible for their leadership actions; new leadership roles created, collaborative teamwork is the modus operandi and inter-dependent working is a cultural norm.
Second, while there are no neat formulas or easy ring binder solutions that can help address this question there are certain things that can be practically done to
make distributed leadership authentic.
Distributed leadership means mobilising leadership expertise at all levels in the school in order to generate more opportunities for change and to build the capacity for improvement.
Such distributed leadership, Elmore is quick to point out, does not mean «no one is responsible for the overall performance of the organization» — rather that leaders must create a «common culture of expectations» regarding skills and knowledge, and hold individuals «accountable for their contributions to the collective result.»
Eighteen years into the field of education, Melissa Stormont is now the Program Manager for Success by Design, the Opportunity
Culture distributed leadership model, in CMS.
These typically included
promoting distributed leadership among all staff (where the task of leading a particular aspect is undertaken by a range of members of staff across a school's workforce), developing middle leaders, and holding strategic - level discussions to diagnose issues and plan improvements.
Talent Development Secondary encourages
effective distributed leadership so that those in the school closest to the everyday realities of students and staff have the discretion and responsibility to make timely decisions on their behalf.
The research also found there should be less focus on disproportionately rewarding the performance of key individuals given that where CEOs promote shared or
distributed leadership there is likely to better team performance.