Ebook: Distributed leadership according to the evidence

Although not new, the concept of distributed (shared) leadership has re-emerged in recent years as one highly promising response to the complex challenges currently faced by schools. Responding productively to these challenges far exceeds the capacities of any individual leader. If schools are to flouish in the future, they will need to enlist the collective expertise of many more of their members and stakeholders than they have in the past. The purpose of this volume is to both present and synthesize the best available evidence about the nature, causes and effects of distributed school leader. Read more... New perspectives on an old idea: a short history of the old idea / Kenneth Leithwood, Blair Mascall, Tiiu Strauss -- Hybrid Leadership / Peter Gronn -- Distributed leadership paradigms, policy, and paradox / John Macbeath -- Districts, teacher leaders, and distributed leadership: changing instructional practice / William A. Firestone, M. Cecilia Martinez -- School principals at work: a distributed perspective / James P. Spillane, Eric M. Camburn, Amber Stitziel Pareja -- Postioning the principals in patterns of school leadership distribution / Stephan E. Anderson, Shawn Moore, Jingping Sun -- "A job too big for one": multiple principals and other non-traditional approaches to school leadership / W. Norton Grubb, Joseph J. Flessa -- Conceptualizing distributed leadership as a school reform: revisiting job redesign theory / David Mayrowetz ... [et al.] --Distributing leadership to improve outcomes for students / Helen S. Timperley -- Distributing leadership to make schools smarter: taking the ego out of the system / Kenneth Leithwood ... [et al.] -- Distributed leadership and knowledge creation / Alma Harris -- What we have learned and where we go from here / Kenneth Leithwood, Blair Mascall, Titu Strauss