2.1 Key Levers to Develop Distributed Leadership by Teacher Academy

Marianna Bartzakli where we stand?

2017-06-06 09:13:07 UTC

As for shared understanding of distributed leadership my school is in a quite good level. Teachers are given opportunities and space to work and help in the domains where they feel professionals and familiar.
As for participatory action more of the teachers feel like members in our community of practice. But more has to be done. I mean that more teachers have to be enabled and feel that they are part in this community. many teachers are not feeling committed because they do not have a stable position in the school. they use to say i do not know if i am going to be in this school next year... so why ia have to do things....
As for enabling institutonal structures we have scheduled meetings , we give opportunties and we are open to change. despite the difficulties we try to have time to change ideas and talk for pedagogical and institutional matters. In the school there are teachers responsible for issues. like programmes, escursions. etc
As for open social environment we are in a very good level, though work has to be done for some of us to trust and think positively for the whole team and for specific collegues.
As for evaluating and sharing the impact of DLE. we need a lot of work. we have no evaluation formal in greek educational system. so the process of evaluation depends on our own. in Greece the matters of evaluation cause great conversations and obstacles... so we only do unformal discussions and we try to enable all the members of our community.

Petrina Blushi

vilifeliksi — 2017-06-06 10:44:36 UTC

Tirana, Albania

I agree with Mariana, and with the video "Key Levers to Develop Distributed Leadership", where this process is seen as a social process in our schools.

rasa

2017-06-06 11:49:00 UTC

i believe we are missing a participatory culture. so many our staff are just taking the orders but they do not want to participate in our school life and do a little bit more then just a minimum.

Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece

psaridou — 2017-06-06 13:06:16 UTC

The most difficult part in a Greek school for me is Key Lever 2. Every year the majority of the teachers usually change schools. Sometimes they come to our school in the middle of the school year. So it's difficult for them and we usually don't push them to express opinions or to volunteer in any participatory part of the school life. They are, of course, free to express opinions, but they are rarely heard.

Iulia

2017-06-06 15:04:38 UTC

In my school, I think the difficulty starts with the first keylever, as the distributed leadership is poorly understood. Every teacher and every student, and parent, must understand that they have a great responsibility in the act of education. The tasks of all the employees of an organization and of the beneficiaries of education must not be seen as a chore, but a step towards their own development and not only.

Chiara S.

kyarasar — 2017-06-06 15:21:45 UTC

Genova (Italia)
In my opinion, we have problems with the 5th lever; we are not used to evaluate our way of acting, we do a lot of work, but we hardly reflect on it. Moreover we consider evaluation a kind of limitation of our freedom and/or a boring bureaucratic affair

Tina_Greece

tinamellos — 2017-06-06 16:02:31 UTC

'everyone works to promote inclusive, hollistic learning' is a utopia, and ideal situation in another dimension perphaps; definitely NOT in ours! What needs to be done first is to find a way for the majority of the teachers to be convinced that it's not sth bad to share esp. values, views, ideas, leadership! Furthermore, an open social environment is out of the question! And evaluating is another loooong story to tell...

Chiara, Rome

carusochiara — 2017-06-06 16:11:07 UTC

I agree with Chiara, from Genova. Key lever #5 is the one in which ( we need a lot of work (in my school as well).
A reflecting component is essential and it is difficult to recognise promptly if you are following the right way or not. The level of commitment has to be high and you have to get a lot of experience and pratise with students, colleagues, headmasters etc... in order to be ready to change and increase future impact.

M

2017-06-06 16:19:31 UTC

Marco, Latina

2017-06-06 16:19:32 UTC

In my school, also because of application of latest law, we need to start from scratch, then the key lever #1 and #2 will require a lot of work.

Maria Duarte

joaoinvestiga — 2017-06-06 17:25:57 UTC

(Portugal)
The facilitation of a clear and shared understanding of the concept of DLE itself is a need in my school. It´s lacking the development of a participatory culture at the institutional structures that support leadership from across all parts of the organisation. DLE has to replace the traditional leaders and teachers beliefs and practices.

Georgeta Serban

getaserban — 2017-06-06 17:29:46 UTC

In our school, we have little problems at all levels because in the last few years there is an emphasis on the activities you are doing as a leader in awarding prizes, and the teachers wanting to get as many points do many individual activities without them It also involves colleagues very much ..... but I think we still have the biggest problem at Level 5

Nils / Germany

2017-06-06 18:02:47 UTC

All levers require a lot of work at our school but what should be worked on mostly is a particapatory culture.

Argyrios Zymaras (Greece

argzymaras — 2017-06-06 18:25:27 UTC

Key Levers 1, 2, 4 and 5 are mainly in need to work on. It is very important that school staff and other stake-holders profoundly comprehend the concept and gravity of DL , which consequently will raise responsibility levels and participation rates and, moreover, the communication of DL impact will fuel further active involvement in DL. It is a circle that needs to be kept running.
The social stake-holders also need to be activated locally so to realize that it is NOT a centralized matter but it is there to serve and benefit the immediate environment

Colette Ireland

2017-06-06 19:34:41 UTC

key Lever 1 is the most important lever as most teachers and school leaders do not understand the concept of Distributed Leadership. Most believe that leadership is distributed from the top down rather than something that is organic and must involve all in order to move forward and for development to take place.

João, Portugal

santos_jaml — 2017-06-06 20:05:12 UTC

All levels must be worked out. However, in my school, the level that most work requires is the culture in which it participates. Teachers feel discouraged and disillusioned with working and social conditions and, in this context, less involved in the sharing of school decisions.

Christos, GREECE

christos_chachoudis — 2017-06-06 20:22:33 UTC

I think all key levers should be worked out continuously from all stakeholders, teachers, school leaders and staff. We all should develop the conditions to work out, collaborate, involve all parts of school enviroment to have the best results in education

Carla Diogo, Portugal

carladiogo311 — 2017-06-06 20:39:48 UTC

To be honest, all of them...not because there is not will of doing them but because we are not used to it. If I really had to choose one of them, I would take lever 2 - all the values and ideals that support DLE must be shared and lived. Only if we are really aware of them, will we be able to make them a part of our daily school life.

Vítor Martins, Portugal

martins_m_vitor — 2017-06-06 21:17:21 UTC

In my school, and I tendto believe that in many other schools, the lack of a participatory culture is a major problem. Both teachers and other workers feel betrayed on their expectations, lead with several problems, which intensifies a tendency to act individually or at least to not feel very engaged.

Rasma, Lithuania

rasmastuokiene — 2017-06-07 06:30:34 UTC

In our school all levers need to be developed and improved maybe except for the open social environment because our school has long traditions and appreciating everyone's opinion and input is part of this. Everyone is free and encouraged to contribute to the improvement. Also, we have some practice in enabling institutional structures. However, the rest of the leavers clearly need workiing on

Thomas Boulieris, Greece

2017-06-07 07:05:59 UTC

Unfortunately Self-Evaluation has ceised and only functioned for one year officially in my country,. As such, School Development is mainly a matter of centralized hierarchical process operated vertically by the ministry of education. Of course there are many motivated leaders that try to cast light on issues of building a participatory culture and setting the psychological basis on sharing their will to change and work for equity and learning in an open social environment where internal and external audiences would co-operate on a DLE basis. I think lever No 1: understanding of distributed leadership is of great importance as it takes under account the basic steps towards change that also include a psycological preparation to accept values and strategies of change.

Pietro-Italy

pierolauro — 2017-06-07 09:49:20 UTC

I found really interesting the theory of the five levers which a good distributed leadership should be based on. The metaphore of the tree suits well the amount of general commitment needed to achieve the goal. As for my current situation at school I find that key lever 2 and key lever 4 should be better improved and understood in their cruciality. I think that a participatory culture is what is missing right now in my school, this pretty much happens because a open social environment should be created and encouraged to let all stakeholders be part of a school project aiming at innovation and better practices among all the actors involved.

Maria K, Romania

maria_kovacs — 2017-06-07 11:09:20 UTC

In my opinion, lever 3 is there and actionable for DLE to emerge; however, the other levers are to be worked on a lot. Our predominant school culture is not yet of the type that favours the processes that lead to shared understanding of DLE. In many schools there is, I believe, a quite open social environment. I think most formal leaders who favour DLE have to make sustained efforts to bring groups of people together, to capitalise on the formally available structures to facilitate productive dialog for shared understanding and for a favourable school culture to emerge.

Anne-Laure, France

almhwalker — 2017-06-07 13:41:45 UTC

In our school, two levers seems important to consider. KL1: Shared leadership is somewhat part of our school, however is has never truly been discussed at teacher level. Making sure everyone is aware of DL and happy to to take part is essential.

KL5: our school requires a lot more self-reflection in order to improve and grow faster. Many good initiatives are tested / put in place, however reflection is not systematically implemented, which undermines the whole process.

Aliya Agayeva

Agayeva — 2017-06-07 15:36:29 UTC

In our daily life we can easily see that five key levers work together to support the development of distributed leadership for equity and learning in action.
Policy makers have a key role to play in facilitating a shared understanding of DLE.

the second important is necessity of DLE to be continually cultivated and nurtured in supportive ideas and values that people genuinely share and are committed to

Eugenia

2017-06-07 17:56:05 UTC

GREECE
As most of the colleagues have already written in my school all five key levers must be worked out, so as DLE to be the predominant culture of the school. The problem is that not all the teachers are willing to participate in the developing of such a culture as quite many of them change schools every year. Only some of those who have permanent position would be really interested in changing our school.

Adérito

2017-06-07 18:37:26 UTC

PortugalThe lever I feel requires more work at my school is at 5, because the assessment does not yet have that focus.

Manoila Maria, Romania

2017-06-07 18:53:28 UTC

All five levers are important.

Sofia Chatzigeorgiadou

sisichatzi — 2017-06-07 20:08:32 UTC

Taking the first step was the most difficult part of the change. Embracing DLE idea is the most crucial part. We are moving towards this cooperative path instinctively without even knowing the definition or the theoretical basis. We have a long way to learn and experiment but at least we are ready.

BURCU yörük

burcu_yoruk_00 — 2017-06-07 20:12:13 UTC

I think ,
Especially the parents should cooperate more with the school

Nino Akhaladze

ninoakhaladze2 — 2017-06-07 20:44:32 UTC

The image above reminds us that new initiatives need to be rooted in a well-prepared ground. Personally I think that if the roots are strong as a school fro example, and it has acollaborative and friendly environment, where everyone respects each other , it is always the place of success and high qualified education. and the leaders itself don't
create followers, they create more leaders.

Michela, Italy

2017-06-07 22:03:01 UTC

The participatory culture - it can serve as gateways into increased engagement to make participation personally meaningful and motivated.

Ruta, Lithuania

Rutike — 2017-06-08 11:21:22 UTC

From my point of view, at my school we must work on Lever 2. If it seems OK from the point of teachers, as there are quite enough of them who participate actively in the life of the school, we still can’t find the ways how to enable students and their parents in creating participatory culture. Also, we should learn and find the ways how to evaluate the impact of DL (Lever 5).

Ausra, Lithuania

a_netiksiene — 2017-06-08 12:17:30 UTC

First of all the first key lever should be developed in a more understandable and better noticed way, even the fundamentals are seen and then the most problematic is lever 2 – a participatory culture. Probably it is very difficult to involve everyone or at least a part to work together. It should be inherited from the rigid hierarchy – when most of the staff used to obey what was said and there was no need to express own opinion. So if anyone succeeded to put three ingredients: responsibility, reliability and respect in that culture. It should work.

Giovanna Italy

2017-06-08 14:33:33 UTC

School leaders can build broad engagement and create balanced power and establish leadership as a "partnership".
It is important that all participants share responsibility and accountability.

María José, Spain

mjmaciassotillo — 2017-06-08 18:28:53 UTC

Perhaps in my school the most important step is to develop participatory culture. For us is the key to initiating changes.

Despoina, Greece

despkyr2 — 2017-06-08 21:17:32 UTC

Our school system is mostly administered by the state, so I think that a first step towards shared understanding of the DL is consider and discuss how all school stakeholders will react to DL and try to explore its meaning together. In the majority of Greek schools the idea of a real collaborative leadership is still unexplored especially among older teachers, however younger teachers are more eager to embrace different approaches if the school environment is open to innovation. Greek teachers are easily tired of theoretical pedagogic, this is why the formation of shared values that support DL and a commitment to inclusive and holistic learning would only come as a result after creating tangible results. This is why moving to step 3 (that is creating structures that enable DL) is easier to handle, especially since it is connected with the method of school projects that involves creating groups and teams and allocating resources to clarify terms. One more problem to be noticed is that in more conservative leadership environments innovative teachers complain sometimes that their effort is not adequately recognized both by the parents and their colleagues, thus they can be discouraged of contributing to the achievement of school goals.

Gabriella, Italy

gabripeit1 — 2017-06-08 21:27:23 UTC

Provided that we have so much to know and so hard to work on fully understanding of DL, I would say that in my opinion Key Lever 3 is fundamental if applied in any system in which team work is required. An open social environment which supports distributed leadership means being open in how you relate to people recognizing and valuing the contribution everyone gives to achieve the purpose and this effort is significantly important in the school where the hierarchical system should not be rigid

Claudia, Romania

claudiapostu — 2017-06-09 04:37:43 UTC

Jurgita, Lithuania

2017-06-09 11:26:16 UTC

All five levers are important. I think that we have to work on Lever 1. We must share understanding of distributed leadership at first and then discuss about a participatory culture.

Isabel, Portugal

isabelcachadaber — 2017-06-09 12:59:14 UTC

All of them

Antonia Brandão Pt

dolores_brandao — 2017-06-09 15:57:28 UTC

Key lever two is fundamental. But before explore that idea, i want to congratulate the choice of the image. In fact all the new initiatives must be well rooted and the ground must be prepared...if that does´nt happen, nothing will flourish . , Now i must explain why key lever two is fundamental, if there isn't´a participatory culture, all decisions can be excellent, but people may not accept them, or even worse, the may appear to accept it but they will do what they want to do and they can resist to all innovations.

Céu Martins, Portugal

2017-06-09 16:09:53 UTC

All, in my opinion. Without having the notion and knowledge of the first key lever, we can never reach the fifth key lever: without understanding and sharing the DL we can never evaluate It and,
obviously, we can't share Its impact on our school.

Aliya

Agayeva — 2017-06-09 20:14:49 UTC

I think that shared understanding of distributed leadership is necessary in schools.
Evaluation and sharing impact od DL is very important.

Dina Zavalari Greece

2017-06-10 11:06:16 UTC

For my school what I think we should work on are Key Lever 2 - a participatory culture- and Key Lever 3 - enabling institutional structures. I think that these two levers depend on one another. A school community should first develop a participatory culture, persuading its members to share and exchange values and ideas, and then invite all stakeholders to have their share and say in the school leadership

Aikaterini Stamatopoulou,Greece

2017-06-10 13:07:08 UTC

The Law and the legibility of our actions is a training frame in action.Positions ,roles and obligations are defined by institutional structures. Of course a prior step for individuals is to understand "shared leadership".If institutional structures allowed the concept of "shared leadership,this by itself would be a training frame,supporting a context of trust.

Isabel Nunes, Portugal

2017-06-10 15:49:02 UTC

I think that all the levers are important.But the Key Lever 2- The culture is composed of visions, values and beliefs, culture gives the North on a compass, leading people in the same direction. In addition, provides standards that lead the way people interact with each other

Luís Gonçalves, Portugal

coordenadordetic — 2017-06-10 17:31:03 UTC

I agreed that all levels are important. But, as someone had said, culture is one of the most important levels. But all the key levers are very difficult to achieve. How can we evaluate this key lever? In the movie they spoke in hard and soft evaluation, but how is done? What instruments do we use?

The questions they spoke in the movie is a starting point, never the less, is very difficult to give a answer to this questions.

2017-06-10 19:47:54 UTC

Rosaria,Italy
In my opinion all levels are important because they are linked together and in my school each aspect of them must be improved

Alessadra Basso Italy

alessandra_bass — 2017-06-10 20:20:14 UTC

In my opinion, in my school, it is necessary to broaden the partecipatory culture, but the key level 4 requires more work, because
the culture of evaluation as reflection on our actions andtheir impact on the school, is not achieved yet.

Sevastiani Greece

anniroulia — 2017-06-10 21:13:53 UTC

In my opinion we should start from lever 1 and achieve a shared understanding od DL, then continue in lever 2 and acquire a participatory leadership culture, since in Greece the most common system is the strict hierarchical leadership system.

Sharon, Australia

2017-06-11 02:32:40 UTC

Currently i think that there are various levers that need 'work'! First of all a shared understanding of what DL is and how this supports the school's vision (Lever 1) this is exteremly important as without a clear understanding of DL then the other 4 levers are difficult to address.

Marta

martaropio — 2017-06-11 07:49:24 UTC

PORTUGAL
The understanding of distributed leadership is very important. In schools that teachers are not used to think about this way of leadership, it is important to explain the concept. However it is mandatory that in fact the leader of the organizagion understood that as an essencial role of the school. In Portugal schools have a very hierarchic structure , most of them obliged by the central educational system. So we are used , not to think about the structure but, insted, fullfil what is recomended to do. In this point the changes to a distributede leadership, seam to be much more urgent though, because the social changes are so fast... that we risk to get imprisoned in the school if we not change. So,
the spread of information in order all understand what is our language and aims is very important to get into the participatory culture. If everybody feel that can contributes to improve his work and in the end his school is easier to continue to the other levers. Without this understanding, i believe to be very dificult to get into the other... because teachers and the other members of school comunity must be engaged with the culture and values they want to persue.

Gabriela Sandru, ROMANIA

gabrielasandru1 — 2017-06-11 12:55:30 UTC

My opinion is that in our school we share a culture and values but we lack that opening towards the people outside school. The boundaries might be a bit too rigid.

Sophia Kouzouli, Greece

sophiakouz — 2017-06-11 13:47:43 UTC

The basis of building relationships is understanding. Thus, in my school environment where decisions are taken by the top of the hierarchy, Key Lever 1 is of utmost importance.

Shared understanding of what D. L. means can facilitate the development of a participatory culture and improve the democratic values and approaches at school.

Fernanda Santos, Portugal

2017-06-11 15:59:19 UTC

I choose lever # 2 because I consider that Participatory Culture is made to embrace communication, coordination, community, and social interaction. Teachers need tools to help them talk to one another, plan and coordinate projects and activities and work with like-minded individuals, or even interact socially.

The interest in collaboration has been escalating and that demands improved information. Collaboration (like collaborative workplaces that anyone can edit) can overcome any reluctance to participate by identifying who is contributing the information and help. Shifting the corporate culture towards collaboration fosters a more interactive, creative workforce that is engaged and motivated. A project of any size can be handled more efficiently and effectively. Leaderships need to take advantage of the new tools and techniques to get more done. Putting the participatory culture into practice and embracing the applications, practices, and mindset will mean school reaping the rewards.

Daniela, Romania

danielamioarachisalita — 2017-06-11 16:42:32 UTC

All five levers are very important for being in interdependence, interacting and supporting DL together. But in our school these keys are very little visible and we should start with key 1.

Daniela M

2017-06-11 19:11:45 UTC

I consider that without a cleared understanding of DL meanings, without general agreement on organizational values and without mutual respect, levers 2 to 5 can't be properly and useful developed in my school. All of these should start from the idea that anyone in school is important and anyone voice should be really listened.

Konstantina Chryssanthopoulou, Greece

dinachryss — 2017-06-11 19:14:29 UTC

In my opinion, all levers require work in my school, because until now there hasn't been a distributed leadership in my school. All the decisions are taken by the headmaster and teachers and students aren't asked. Questioning arises disapproval and so it is avoided. The only good thing is that the school supports innovation and provides the media required to achieve this. But the results arent't shared and recognised properly

Kristina

2017-06-11 19:36:03 UTC

A participatory culture and open social environment should be considered as the strength in our school because lots of good ideas from teachers, parents, schoolchildren are listened to and implemented. But we should improve all the levers despite that.

Egidijus

2017-06-11 20:14:16 UTC

Lever 1 and mostly 5. I think for us is like - lets do some things - and it is done. Now we need some more evaluations, planing, more structured understanding.

Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy

soleemare_a — 2017-06-11 20:58:59 UTC

I think that the third lever – enabling institutional structures - would require most work at my school, because people could be explained the value of distributed leadership as well as of working together for the school’s benefit. But enabling the needed institutional structures would be very difficult because of the burocratical administrative organization of our Department of Education.

Tatiana,Romania

tatianasilvesan72 — 2017-06-11 22:05:48 UTC

In my opinion, all the levers are needed in my school, because so far there has been no distributed leadership in my school. All decisions are taken by the director, and teachers and students are not asked.

Nalan Turkey,m1.1

eney — 2017-06-12 06:47:41 UTC

İn my School there is not DL.There is a curriculum& program that we have to follow and we are not flexible enough to do necessary changes or to take required decisions

Irène, Belgium

irene_indemans1 — 2017-06-12 09:00:31 UTC

While working on the first task concerning the Self-Evaluation and the Development Plan, I come to the conclusion that we have got quite a good shared understanding of distributed leadership. The 4 other levers are present and can be refined. Especially the participation from the pupils and parents and the evaluation and sharing of the impacts of this type of non-hierachical leadership will have to be reconsidered in depth

Carmen, Romania

carmenescu2000 — 2017-06-12 11:27:47 UTC

In my school we have an open social environment, valuing each contribution (teachers, students, parents) and we also have shared ideas and values. What we need more is to really make changes enabling institutional structures; not all the committees or working teams contribute to the common goals of the school.

Urban, Sweden

ugn — 2017-06-12 11:29:32 UTC

It´s real hard to pick up one lever here since they are all woven together in a system for developing DLE. If I have to choose I say that no 2 is most important. What happens if all members at school don´t wont to be a part of the necessity of participation? I think this is the hardest lever. To get every one the same track.

Ileana, Romania

ilieileanaluiza — 2017-06-12 15:12:03 UTC

Inna, Ukraine

2017-06-12 15:37:15 UTC

Open social environment and participatory culture require more work in my school. Teachers, parents, students and school administration are like separate mechanism of action. There is no one direction and a team work.

Cláudia Monteiro - Portugal

mpmclaudia — 2017-06-12 15:51:24 UTC

I don´t think there is a clear understanding of what DL is and of it´s benefits in terms of the school’s organization and of promoting holistic learning in my school. Being too focused in academic, cognitive learning and in test driven teaching, social and democratic skills and holistic learning aren´t really a focus at the moment. So, naturally the 1st lever is essential has a starting point, if a shift is to me promoted.

Also, 4th lever would be fundamental to work with, since a rigid set of responsibilities is established for each group, which in turn disengages all the others from investing in so many aspects of the decision making process and demotes participation efforts. There is a need for a more open social environment in which participation from all sectors of the school can occur and be value, instead of being dismissed or rejected as threatening or imposed, and being restricted to a small group of formal leaders. This environment, where there is an incentive for participation in discussions and in decision making processes could definitely promote a participatory culture (2nd lever) from not only teachers, but also students, parents and all other participants of the school.

Angela, Moldova

andimitriu337 — 2017-06-12 15:55:39 UTC

I think, all 5 levels are very important for supporting DL.
My school require to pass through all of them starting with Key levers 1 to Key levers 5.

Cristina, Spain

2017-06-12 16:33:40 UTC

I feel Key Lever 1 requires most work at my school, but I also believe KL 1 should be developed together with KL2

Madalena, Portugal

monicacasquinha — 2017-06-12 18:11:53 UTC

Distributed leadership is fundamental to an effective involvement of all in building a quality school. The key Lever 1  is the basis for the development of the following levels, with a participatory culture where the sharing of ideas and experiences can increase professional development and enhance the capacity and motivation of professionals. This way the structures become more capable of the necessary changes and transformations that a quality school demands permanently. The involvement of professionals and the opening of the school to the outside are key to this change that the school demands. As part of the whole process for effective leadership, a process of monitoring and evaluating processes and results based on benchmarks and with the participation of all is needed to have the results of that evaluation analyzed and integrated into the process of transformation and Improvement.

Spasija

2017-06-12 19:15:41 UTC

I would say Key Lever 4 only because I feel that maybe a bit greater recognition should be given to some of the colleagues who have shared that their contribution has not been valued appropriately.

Veturia, Romania

sesermanv1 — 2017-06-12 20:07:39 UTC

All five levers are very important - the key to success is not doing more work and making more changes, but doing the right work, and making the right changes. It is important to increase school autonomy, finance and accountability

Maria / Greece

2017-06-12 21:26:57 UTC

Raising awareness and ultimately achieving understanding pf DL is of paramount importance as this is the firts step to be taken. This idea is new to my context and familiarisation and acceptance will result in effective applica

Amalia, Romania

amaliavic — 2017-06-13 08:38:13 UTC

Module I and Module II has meant for me a favorable context for a deeper reflection on the type of leadership promoted in my institution and the necessary and possible steps to develop and support DLE. I believe that the five key levers act simultaneously, as they also represent levels at which changes occur interconnected.I believe that at this point in my institution more time and effort should be allocated to the implementation of strategies at the level of the institutional structures, to increase their permissiveness, with effects on the other levels, such as the participatory organizational culture. Thus, the attempt to develop institutional structures facilitating DLE, precisely through concrete interventions at school level (creating opportunities for participation in decision-making groups of as many teachers as possible, involving as many colleagues in the design of joint working procedures on different compartments, accessibility of formal and informal committees and working groups, support and allocation of resources so that as many teachers as possible can coordinate projects, engage in innovation and apply shared learning, expand the composition of working committees and forums for sharing innovation) all of this implicitly leads to decanting and sharing common values (such as: respect for all, engagement, assuming responsibility, encouraging criticism and evaluation and feedback as they support school improvement).  Implicitly, by allocating time and working further on the development of institutional structures permissive to participatory leadership, it will lead to the consolidation of a participatory culture, as well as a profound understanding of the DLE. Structural changes take place together with and interdetermined with cultural change. The two levels are those that I believe that intervention at the level of my institution is particularly needed at present.

Maria Calà, Italy

giambigia — 2017-06-13 14:16:58 UTC

According to my assessment all five areas should be improved and developed. But 2, 3 and 4 deserve special attention.

Ivana, Italy

2017-06-13 15:42:25 UTC

Many times we assist to incapacity and incompetences ....we need DL in the school in oreder to develop a democratic system and to foster relationship and interaction among teachers

Antonietta, Italy

miaaba — 2017-06-13 15:47:16 UTC

I think that all 5 key levers are equally necessary to develop DLE as it is the result of their combination at school. In my school interaction is not always possible because of a weak participatory culture but also because people are often evaluated for their individually progress and not for their ability to establish positive relationships. An open social environment could help to gain the goal.

Bahar Abdullayeva Azerbaijan

2017-06-13 17:30:34 UTC

I teaching secondry school In our conutry.there are a lot of innovativ teachers in our school.But not DL in our school.I think that 5 levels are very important for develop

Stratos / Greece

2017-06-13 20:58:04 UTC

Unfortunately in our school very few colleagues are really have the sense of understanding of distributed leadership and these are the ones that indeed have a participatory culture. Thus all five key levers need to be equally developed. That means a culture change. I find it really difficult.

Stéphanie, France

2017-06-13 21:23:41 UTC

In the Primary section where I teach, we begin to implement DL. During our meetings, teachers are involved and participate in the organisation and development of the school. Next year, I would like to involve students as well.

Kristina, Croatia

2017-06-14 09:25:32 UTC

I think all 5 levels need improvement in my school. Distributed leadership is something new in my school.

John Greece

2017-06-14 14:38:09 UTC

I think the lever 1 is what missing in my school. The established culture is that teachers are making their lessons and principal is making his bureaucratic work. That's all about DL

Carlo, Italy

2017-06-15 07:21:17 UTC

I think it's necessary to start from the key lever 1. Collaboration and partecipation must be more important than competition between teachers. We should work for our students and our school, not for ourself.

Pina Italy

cristianpina — 2017-06-15 10:08:35 UTC

I thik that all 5 key levers are equally necessary to develop dle. In my school interaction is really difficult but not impossibol.

Grazia

2017-06-15 17:02:15 UTC

I think that all the five key levers are important to develop DLE as long as they are combined the right way

Angelina Alberico, Italy

2017-06-15 21:52:23 UTC

I think all the five key levers are important for the development of distributed leadership at school.

Sina

2017-06-16 05:46:53 UTC

Annalisa, Italy

2017-06-16 09:41:08 UTC

It's important to start from the roots (key lever 1) and then to develop all the key lever to reach the DLE.

Rosa/ Italy

2017-06-16 13:45:57 UTC

While the school leader will play a crucial role here, especially a cohesive culture, a focus on the core purpose of learning, and internal accountability are substantially dependent on all of our inputs and actions. If all members of school is responsible of a parte of the task, each of them feels parte of a educating community.

Sina

2017-06-16 17:08:48 UTC

I believe my school has already developed three of the 5 levers pretty well. My self-assessment showed that there is still room for improvement on lever 3 and 5. All groups are working really well but sharing the outcome with other members of the community, as well as having a structured plan to work on in terms of working towards a common goal should be improved

Ioanna, Greece

ziakaioanna — 2017-06-16 18:23:16 UTC

Concerning my institution, I think that Lever 2 is what is most needed. Certain members of the organization are rather reluctant to participate or contribute to the school vision and accept part of the responsibility to introduce changes. However, it is rather difficult to convince people of such course of action in cases where their own personal beliefs are of a similar nature

Marisa Badini Italy

marisa_badini — 2017-06-16 22:37:31 UTC

In my school the practice of shared leadership is having good effects, enhancing different attitudes and development paths. I think we need to improve Key Lever 5,, but also work to widen a participatory culture. It's crucial to involve the different stakeholders, fostering team work and shared responsability in reaching the goals. the 5 Key levers support each other, and need to be nurtured time by time.

Elena Roșca, România

2017-06-17 16:54:32 UTC

Concerning the key 5 the leader must be willing to fully assume the mistakes and shortcomings of his institution. If he tries to escape this responsibility, he will not remain a leader. If one of his followers has made a mistake, and is incompetent, the leader has to take responsibility that he is the one who failed.

Konstantina, Greece

2017-06-18 17:26:09 UTC

I think that the lever5 evaluate and share the impact of distributed leadership requires most work at my school.

Mariana,

2017-06-18 18:47:05 UTC

Romania

My school requires all the 5 levers

Ilenia Brancato

ilenia2 — 2017-06-19 23:07:30 UTC

In my school, the practice of shared leadership has a positive impact on both professional and human relationships and has an impact on the improvement of development paths. I think we should promote teamwork and share responsibility for achieving goals.

eerika, Finland

eerika_kantonen — 2017-06-20 09:18:09 UTC

I think we need most work on lever 1. Part of the management do understand the meaning for some it seems like waist of time

Ana, Portugal

acfilipe36 — 2017-06-20 09:54:56 UTC

In my opinion, the five levers are equally important to reach leadership development (DL).
At my school, in particular, all of them exist, but some have to be more worked on in order to achieve the desired results.

Sonia,Romania

2017-06-20 12:24:30 UTC

In my opinion in order to get good results all the levers are needed

Stefania, Italy

mastrapasqua_stefania — 2017-06-20 14:06:15 UTC

I think that the leadership of my school should work very hard on fifth lever. In fact, when you evaluate and share the impact you can understand what's happening and what you can change; it would be a self evaluation

Maria Cristina Cella Italy

2017-06-20 14:41:53 UTC

I think in my school we are at a good level of shared leadership We are working to its effective improvement .

Valentina

2017-06-20 19:48:00 UTC

Key Lever 1.
Members of the organization should understand the distributed leadership then want and take the leadership of the organization in this direction.

Patrizia, Italia

patrinappa — 2017-06-20 20:33:13 UTC

Per sviluppare la leadership condivisa le cinque leve chiave di intervento sono necessarie e interconnesse come in un sistema olistico complesso. In base alla mia esperienza, nella mia realtà scolastica occorre ancora lavorare per implementare il miglioramento dei vari aspetti e la coesione complessiva.

Chiara, Italy

chiara_semplicini — 2017-06-21 05:39:36 UTC

I think lever 1 and lever 5 need to be improved. However, all levers could be taken as a reference point, to promote school development and DLE.

Chiara, Florence, Italy

2017-06-21 10:59:39 UTC

Since this is an holistic matter the 4 areas of development are deeply interconnected and closely interrelated.

Bartolomeo Corbo-Italy

vanvitellitt — 2017-06-21 15:22:08 UTC

I think in my school we have to work about the first and second lever.

They are the basics because we still have no clear idea of what it is distributed leadership and what is a participatory culture. Many teachers think that change should come from above.
Obviously all the five levers are interrelated and important

Marianthi Arvanitidou-Greece

1canislupus22 — 2017-06-22 05:36:20 UTC

it is very important all the levels

Rosaria, Limite S/ Arno

rosy_lily — 2017-06-22 13:44:32 UTC

I think all of 5 levers are very important and linked among each other.
In this moment, in my school, levers 1 and 2 are the most important so when these two levers are deeply rooted, it will be possible to follow the other points and two have a DL

Adina Marcu,Romania

adinamarcu9 — 2017-06-22 20:16:11 UTC

All of 5 Key Levers are very important!

Achilleas, Cyprus

2017-06-23 05:59:10 UTC

I also believe that all 5 key levels are important.

Rony Ford

2017-06-23 09:45:31 UTC

All Key Levers are important, indeed . But I feel that Key 1 is something that need to be understood but also implemented and clearly seen in the Leaders actions and dynamics.
Also 5 is difficult as job is more and more time constrained and teachers are , in most cases at capacity , the time to share and reflect tends to became non important.

Monica/Italy

2017-06-23 11:26:38 UTC

I think in my school we would work on all levers but especially in key lever three, in partecipatory leadership culture.

Preeti, Sweden

preetivij — 2017-06-24 11:43:01 UTC

I believe all 5 key Levers are important for a well run organisation. My school is very new, we just finished the first academic year and I believe after learning from the hiccups from the first years we should start with Key Lever 1 so all stakeholders understand DL so a participatory culture (Key Lever 2) can be developed from the very beginning.

Elisa Ciontoli, Italy

2017-06-24 16:47:32 UTC

All 5 key levers are fundamental to change in school.

Patricia F.,

pati_serena — 2017-06-25 16:31:18 UTC

Romania
In my opinion,my school requires all the five key levers.

Guen, Turin, Italy

guendalinah — 2017-06-25 20:03:15 UTC

My school requires to work on every aspect but most in key 2 and 4. I noticed that people is jalous of his work so I think that sharing is the issue that could create a open social environment.

Cristina, Italy

2017-06-26 05:35:12 UTC

My school requires to work most in key 3 and 5:
in particolar never evaluete and share The impatto of The work of The differenti team. Only a group take responsibilility.

Maria-Laura, Romania

fpreotescu — 2017-06-27 11:12:04 UTC

I think that in my school the second key lever can be applied: participatory leadership culture. There are two arguments to this effect: 1. There is availability and willingness to participate from most teachers, students, parents. Their reactions at the times they were involved have demonstrated this in their entirety. We have identified several opinion groups that predominantly act informally but can be involved in the distributed leadership process.

Anemaria

2017-06-27 11:16:22 UTC

Romania

In my opinion, the five levers are equally important to reach leadership development (DL), but there is a need for a change of mentality.

Stefania Altieri, Italy

stefaniaaltieri73 — 2017-06-27 13:29:18 UTC

We need to change our mentality and begin to work together in order to achieve the same goals.

Level 2: a participatory culture

2017-06-27 20:26:55 UTC

We need at least to start sharing information relevant to our work.

Evangelia, Greece

2017-06-27 21:49:00 UTC

All levers seem important. However, since my school does not exhibit any traces of DLE, ihink the 1st lever is the most important. it serves as the foundation of all the others, necessary in the mentality of the head teacher.

Ramona,romania

2017-06-28 13:08:37 UTC

My school needs to improve key 2 and 3. We need to involve more the autorities.

Ourania, Greece

ranialampou — 2017-06-28 18:00:06 UTC

My school organization needs shared school leadership which is more than the sum of knowledge and actions of individual leaders. Structured courses selected as specific leadership actions are organized as a result of dynamic interaction between many leaders and audiences.

xarastefani — 2017-06-28 18:24:14 UTC

XARA , GREECE
In my opinion all levels are important for the good practice of school but what my school lacks is the mentality to adjust to new challenges

Angela Lanzo

2017-06-28 21:46:46 UTC

Italy
My school organization needs shared school leadership which is more than the sum of knowledge and actions of individual leaders. Structured courses selected as specific leadership actions are organized as a result of dynamic interaction between many leaders and audiences.

Sura Mehdiyeva Azerbaijan My scholl 1İsmayilli İ.Hesenov

2017-06-29 20:18:45 UTC

Natasa, Greece

natixrysf — 2017-06-30 12:00:41 UTC

we have to start understanding the meaning of DL

Vana Tsiapou, Greece

2017-07-03 12:10:20 UTC

I think that a shared understanding of leadership should be the target in the beginning of the school year. This would become the starting point for building values and ideas that support DLE

Marialuisa Brindisi

2017-07-04 09:02:14 UTC

Italia

Leadership is shared in my school, but it is the sum of the actions of individual leaders

oya karabağ

ayo_karabag — 2017-07-21 20:08:57 UTC

türkiye
my school köyceğiz ortaokulu -muğla

2019-06-13 22:21:25 UTC

My school needs to improve key 2 and 3
we want to involve more
Thank you