The Relationship Between Distributed Leadership and Student Learning

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The symposium focuses on the relationship between distributed leadership and student learning. This relationship refer to the presumption of an indirect effect of leadership on school improvement and student learning from school effectiveness research and the field of school leadership efficiency. The presumption of an indirect leadership effect is also supported in the current distributed leadership concept, which is characterized by the implementation of responsibility in the organizational and personnel structure (that means multiple roles and levels) of individual school (i.e. Harris, 2004; Spillane, 2006). Even though the efficiency of this widely discussed leadership concept is not sufficiently clarified so far, it is generally acknowledged as effective. Current studies show that distributed leadership has an indirect effect on student learning.

Sub Unit

• SIG-School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Chairs

• Barbara Muslic, Freie Universität

• Chris Brown, Durham University

Papers

• Collaborative Leadership and School Improvement: Their Effects on Student Learning - Ronald H. Heck, University of Hawaii - Manoa

• Distributing Leadership for Collective Teacher Learning to Effect Student Learning Outcomes: A Singapore Case - Salleh Hairon, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University; Jonathan Goh, National Institute of Education - Nanyang Technological University

• Distributed Leadership in Personalized Learning: Reframing Data-Driven Improvement in Schools - Richard R. Halverson, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Alan Arthur Barnicle, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Julie M Kallio, The Breck School

Discussant

• Chris Brown, Durham University