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Distributed Leadership and School Improvement

Leading or Misleading?

Warwick Institute of Education, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK, alma.harris{at}warwick.ac.uk

This article considers the relationship between distributed leadership and school improvement. Drawing upon empirical evidence from two contemporary studies of successful school leadership and recent studies of school improvement, it explores the extent to which distributed forms of leadership can contribute to school improvement. The article argues that the distributed perspective offers a new and important theoretical lens through which leadership practice in school can be reconfigured and reconceptualized. It concludes by suggesting that, while evidence would suggest that distributed forms of leadership can assist capacity building within schools which contributes to school improvement, further research is needed to confirm a relationship between distributed forms of leadership and improved student learning outcomes.

Key Words: improvement • shared leadership • collaboration

Educational Management Administration & Leadership, Vol. 32, No. 1, 11-24 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1741143204039297


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