Distributed Leadership Matters: Perspectives, Practicalities, and Potential

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