Distributed Leadership

Part I. Setting the Scene

1. Introduction
Alma Harris

2. Distributed Leadership: What We Know
Alma Harris

Part II. Empirical Perspectives

3. Investigating Connections Between Distributed Leadership and Instructional Change
Eric M. Camburn, S.W. Han

4. Taking a Distributed Perspective in Studying School Leadership and Management: The Challenge of Study Operations
James P. Spillane, Eric M. Camburn, James Pustejovsky, Amber Stitziel Pareja, Geoff Lewis

5. The Relationship Between Distributed Leadership and Teachers’ Academic Optimism
Blair Mascall, Kenneth Leithwood, Tiiu Strauss, Robin Sacks

6. Distributed Leadership in Schools: Does System Policy Make a Difference?
Philip Hallinger, Ronald H. Heck

Part III. Practical Perspective

7. Capacity Building Through Layered Leadership: Sustaining the Turnaround
Christopher Day

8. The Relationship Between Distributed Leadership and Action Learning in Schools: A Case Study
Stephen Dinham

Part IV. Conceptual Theoretical

9. The Role of Sensemaking and Trust in Developing Distributed Leadership
Karen Seashore Louis, David Mayrowetz, Mark Smiley, Joseph Murphy

10. Distributed Leadership: Democracy or Delivery?
Andy Hargreaves, Dean Fink

Part V. Future Perspectives

11. From Distributed to Hybrid Leadership Practice
Peter Gronn

12. Fit for Purpose: An Educationally Relevant Account of Distributed Leadership
V.M.J. Robinson

13. Coda
A. Harris

Keywords: Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Sociology of Education