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. The purpose of this volume is to both present and synthesize the best available evidence about the nature, causes and effects of distributed school leadership. The book also clarifies common misunderstandings about distributed leadership and identifies promising implications for practice and for future research." "This book is appropriate for researchers studying school leadership, instructors and students in graduate-level school leadership courses and practicing administrators at the district and building level."--Jacket.

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 [and others] --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 [and others] -- Distributed leadership and knowledge creation / Alma Harris -- What we have learned and where we go from here / Kenneth Leithwood, Blai…