Educational Leadership
Distributed Leadership as a Strategy for School Improvement: A Case Study
Current educational literature suggests that distributing leadership in schools can leverage individual and organizational development, however, this model of leadership is far from the dominant practice of leadership in most schools. The paper presents a case study of implementation efforts to develop distributed leadership as a planned strategy for building school’s leadership capacity in support of instructional improvement in high schools in Slovenia. Using a recently developed framework designed to study distributed leadership development and implementation in schools, this study examines an in-service professional development program and its role in promoting distributed leadership practice and improvement of school’s instructional capacity.