Who Plays the Magic Leadership Role in Building a School Collaborative Learning Community? A Multilevel Model With the Teaching and Learning International Survey 2013 Data

• In Event: Administrator Support of School and Teacher Emotional Needs

Abstract

Though the concept of distributed leadership has been fervent as a promising approach to improve school effectiveness, much research on this emerging leadership style has remained at the stage of definition clarification and taxonomy development. The empirical evidence increasingly supports the relevance of distributed leadership to organizational culture, teacher efficacy, optimism and so on. However, there still exists a giant gap in the literature regarding how leadership is distributed for specific leadership roles, and how leadership distribution is linked to building a collaborative learning. This study, using a large scale international data set, intends to provide the evidence on 1: how leadership is distributed in different counties, 2: how the variation of leadership distribution impacts the collaboration among teachers.

Authors

• Yan Liu, University of North Carolina - Wilmington

• Sheldon T. Watson, Central Connecticut State University