Distributed Leadership Matters

Preface Introduction 1. Leading Educational Change and Improvement What Does Educational Change for Improvement Require? 2. Leading System Reform What Are the Challenges of Reform at Scale? 3. Future Leaders Why Distributed Leadership Is Needed More Than Ever in a Changing World 4. Distributed Leadership: The Facts What We Know About Distributed Leadership and Improved Outcomes and Performance 5. Distributed Leadership: The Dark Side How Distributed Leadership Can be Misused, Misrepresented, and Misconstrued 6. Distributed Leadership: Building Social Capital How Distributed Leadership, in the Form of Professional Collaboration, Contributes to Building Social Capital for Organizational Improvement 7. Distributed Leadership: Professional Learning Communities How Distributed Leadership, in the Form of Powerful Collaborative Teams, Contributes to Organizational Improvement 8. Distributed Leadership: Professional Learning with Impact Leading Effective and Disciplined Professional Collaboration References Appendix Index

Alma Harris is Professor of Educational Leadership at the Institute of Educational Leadership, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Since September 2012, she has been the Director of the Institute of Educational Leadership at the University of Malaya (UM). In 2010-2012 she was a senior policy adviser to the Welsh Government. Professor Harris holds visiting professorial posts at Moscow Higher School of Economics, Nottingham Business School, University of Wales and the University of Southampton. She is currently Past President of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and School Improvement. Professor Harris has published many books including Distributed Leadership Matters (2013), and Uplifting Leadership (2014) with Andy Hargreaves and Alan Boyle.