Today, educational leaders are asked to be responsible for instruction, finances, staffing, and teacher learning while complying with Federal, State, and local accountabilities. A distributive leadership framework helps making sense of this new leadership configuration. Nevertheless, many distributed leadership studies assumed that leaders share consensus around goals, overlooking micropolitical processes of schools. Moreover, it has been difficult for researchers to establish how leadership that is distributed influences teaching and learning.
Using a "multi-sited ethnography", this book...