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Book Synopsis"Distributed Leadership: School Improvement through Collaboration", Volume 4 of the series published in 1995, focuses on defining leadership and questioning the relationships among leaders and followers through a series of case studies. From data collected at two elementary, one middle, and one high school located in Texas, Missouri, and Illinois, researchers offer in-depth analyses of a variety of leadership styles in schools working toward structural and academic reform. These case studies reflect themes that include shifts in leadership roles through participative decision making, connections of leadership processes with instruction and curriculum development processes, and change efforts motivated by student success. Commentary addressing these themes focuses on re-examination of traditional assumptions about the organization of schooling, and on the advantages of school-based decision making through distributed leadership.
Trade ReviewMost readers, particularly principals and teachers in schools in indigent locations, will gain insights that are of value and, in some cases no doubt, they will gain inspiration as well. Journal of Educational Administration
Table of ContentsLeadership and change (R. Clift et al.). Roger L. Sullivan High School: success by exhibition (L. Grant). Dr. Charles E. Gavin School: a case study (I. Diedrich-Rielly). Cross Keys Middle School (asking the right question (M.M. Polite). Hollibrook Elementary School: a case study (M. Johnson). From hierarchical to distributed leadership: operationalizing the shift (B. Merchant). Exploring leadership (P.W. Thurston et al.).
