Description
The benefits of distributed leadership are yours with this research-based change process.
Distributed leadership—engaging the many rather than the few in school improvement—has long been a promising theory. It’s time to make it a reality. This book shows why harnessing educators’ collective expertise leads to better student outcomes, and details the collaborative processes to make distributed leadership happen. Insights include:
- How to translate the research on distributed leadership into tangible results for your school
- Methods for building the social capital necessary for sustainable institutional change
- How to distribute leadership widely and wisely through professional collaboration
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Leading Educational Change and Improvement
What Does Educational Change for Improvement Require?
2. Leading System Reform
What Are the Challenges of Reform at Scale?
3. Future Leaders
Why Distributed Leadership Is Needed More Than Ever in a Changing World
4. Distributed Leadership: The Facts
What We Know About Distributed Leadership and Improved Outcomes and Performance
5. Distributed Leadership: The Dark Side
How Distributed Leadership Can be Misused, Misrepresented, and Misconstrued
6. Distributed Leadership: Building Social Capital
How Distributed Leadership, in the Form of Professional Collaboration, Contributes to Building Social Capital for Organizational Improvement
7. Distributed Leadership: Professional Learning Communities
How Distributed Leadership, in the Form of Powerful Collaborative Teams, Contributes to Organizational Improvement
8. Distributed Leadership: Professional Learning with Impact
Leading Effective and Disciplined Professional Collaboration
References
Appendix
Index
