Distributed leadership-engaging the many rather than the few in school improvement-has long been a promising theory. But it must be implemented effectively before educators and students can reap the rewards, including improved learner outcomes and stronger organizational performance.
Distributed Leadership Matters offers pragmatic approaches for realizing these benefits. First, Alma Harris shows why harnessing educators' collective expertise is an improvement strategy worth adopting. Then she details the collaborative processes that make it happen. Insights include:
How to translate the research on distributed leadership into tangible results for schoolsMethods for building the social capital necessary for sustainable institutional change How to distribute leadership widely and wisely through professional collaborationThis book is the educator's guide to improving the learning outcomes of young people, whatever their context and whatever it takes, supporting teachers to be the very best they can be and ensuring that collaborative learning with impact is achievable and sustainable.
- ISBN10 1483332616
- ISBN13 9781483332611
- Publish Date 22 November 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Corwin Publishers
- Format eBook
- Pages 184
- Language English