Cover; Contents; Preface; About the Editor; About the Contributors; 1 -- The Dynamics of Sharing and Distributing Leadership; 2 -- Changing the Culture of a Middle School; 3 -- Creating Meaningful Opportunities for Collaboration; 4 -- Reflections on Practice; 5 -- A Middle School Strives to Achieve Team Leadership Through Opposition and Uncertainty; 6 -- Evolving Roles and Sharing Leadership; 7 -- Sharing Leadership; 8 -- Lessons Learned About Sustainable Results in Urban Middle Schools; 9 -- Principals Conceptualize the Development of Teacher Leaders
10 -- Principal Choice and Teacher Participation in Site-Based Management11 -- Successful Leadership in Schools Facing Challenging Circumstances; 12 -- Supporting Teachers' Leadership; 13 -- Promoting Leadership Development and Collaboration in Rural Schools; 14 -- Problem-Based Learning and Its Role in Preparing School Leaders for Collaboration; 15 -- Sharing Leadership; Name Index; Subject Index
Summary
Through real-life single and multiple case studies, Learning to Lead Together addresses how principals and their staffs struggle with the challenge of shared leadership, how they encourage teacher growth and development, and how shared leadership can lead to higher levels of student learning. The cases show how shared leadership, a powerful adaptive change, is socially constructed across contexts and evolves as teachers and principals learn how to work together. The book also illustrates how principal preparation and professional development programs that utilize problem-based learning and pr
