Whose Leadership Role Is Even More Essential in Schools for Teacher Professional Collaboration and Positive Teacher Attitudes?

• In Event: Teachers as Leaders in School Improvement

Abstract

Influential educational leadership researchers have been calling for empirical evidence regarding Distributed Leadership operations, responding to the call, this research unpacks distributed leadership by focusing on the operational evidence using the large-scale 2018 Teaching and Learning International Survey data. The primary interests are in the synergetic interactions between leaders and leadership functions, and the association between distributed leadership practices and teacher outcomes using multi-country data. Employing an advanced three-level structural equation model, this research found management team’s role in instructional management and teacher development, and teacher leadership in teacher professional development were associated with desired teacher outcomes.

Author

• Yan Liu, University of North Carolina - Wilmington