Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Distributive leadership is used at Kentwood High School where I did my teaching observations. The Administration made a point to change the culture from everyone relying on them to lead the school to more of a collaborative faculty effort utilizing distributive leadership.
The faculty meets every Tuesday after school in PLC's or Professional Learning Committees to come up with a plan to improve on students progress and their test scores. In doing so, they can take steps to improve on the schools capacity for growth.
Distributive leadership helps the school grow through faculty buy-in. They are helping plan and troubleshoot which gives them pride in what the outcome will be. They are able to work together with other teachers to overcome weaknesses and can be helpful to others as they utilize their strengths. It becomes a team effort and even specialized within the various departments. The math department may collaborate differently than say the social studies department would.
In the end, distributive leadership is a good thing that has been introduced in schools.
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What a good example of distributive leadership. It must be a good feeling for these teachers at your school to know that the administrators trust them enough to lead in their own areas.
ReplyDeleteNice entry, it sounds like at the school that you student taught at the teachers really had a say in things and could make a difference. Thats really nice to hear. Its good that schools have meetings and committees like that to help make change in the building. I definitly find that those are best because who better to make change in a school then the teachers working in the school.
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