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Shared Leadership and School Development

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Shared Leadership and School Development

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Effective school leadership has a positive  impact  on student  achievement,  teaching  quality  and staff  motivation. If leadership is based on a vision that can be shared by all staff, parents and stakeholders, it also plays a crucial role for school development and innovation.  Sharing leadership roles and responsibilities among a wider group of staff, and involving parents and pupils, has a positive impact on schools.

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Learning Objectives for this Module are:

1. Understand concept of distributed leadership (DL)

2. Understand benefits of using DL

3. Understand factors enabling DL

4. Reflect about situation at own school and start survey of current practices

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Distributed leadership includes leadership by students, teachers and support staff, each of whom brings their unique skills, ideas, and experience, and emerges from a particular combination of supportive organisational features.

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We all are important to our organisations.

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We all are important to our organisations.

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I have experienced different types of leadership in my school. I suppose it is just because my heads  have also been learning how to enpower DL in our school. There were times when we were just told what to do but we have experienced the opportunities to have a word to make some changes even in the management of the school as well. I strongly believe that it is up to the leaders' personality, policy of the school and even up to how we (teachers) involve each other into school life and management. They have the tools, but actually we make DL work. It's up to us as well. So let's make the difference! :)

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1.2 Why use Distributed Leadership in Schools?

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1.2 Why use Distributed Leadership in Schools?

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At a specific school level, distributed leadership can help schools respond to major policy challenges they face - being accountable for learning, enabling innovation and promoting democratic citizenship.

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Our school is kind of in a good situation in implementing DL. The headmistress is encouraging different teacher leaders to be the carriers of innovations, to be the project leaders, to be class teachers-leaders... We are encouraged, that's for sure.But is everyone happy about that? Some enjoy the responsibility but some feel dissatisfied.

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I have been working as an English teacher for more than 15 years. This year I am working with the 5th-8th grade students but I have also worked in the primary level as well. I have always been very interested in modern technologies and the implementation of them into the learning process. I have also been working on some international projects at school. This year was a fresh start for me as I have returned after my 2 year maternity leave. As our school is iniciating various novelties and modernisation of the learning process, I have always felt very involved into this strategy and tried to be the carrier of the innovations. I feel that my colleagues see me as a leader at our school so I want to go with this process and be confident not to fail myself and nor to dissapoint them as well.

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1.3 Factors influencing Distributed Leadership in Schools

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1.3 Factors influencing Distributed Leadership in Schools

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Co-ordination and planning - A strong degree of co-ordination and planning of roles, expectations and modes of working

Cohesive culture - A cohesive culture, which has shared goals and values

Core purpose: learning for all - A focus on the core purpose (learning for all), so that a strong link is created between leadership and learning

Capacity building - Capacity building for distributed leadership for equity and learning, which involves developing the capabilities of staff and students to be involved in leadership and the capacity of senior leaders who need the capabilities to develop and support distributed leadership for equity and learning.

Internal accountability -  Effective internal accountability, so that staff and students feel committed to making changes work, and senior leaders are open and transparent about decisions and in that way are accountable to others in the organization.

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Cohesive school culture. Our school leaders have created several groups at school for teachers to take part in some management.We have discussed the main goals,mission of our school and vision what our school should look like in the future.Every member of the community had an opportunity to be the part of a collaborative work  and feel responsible for the future of our organisation. Parents and students had their voice as well.So our cohesive school culture is a joint product of  a DL,I think.

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Module 2: Developing Distributed Leadership

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Module 2: Developing Distributed Leadership

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2.1 Key Levers to Develop Distributed Leadership

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2.1 Key Levers to Develop Distributed Leadership