Distributed leadership in practice / edited by James P. Spillane, John B. Diamond. - New York : Teachers College, Columbia University, c2007. - x, 193 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Critical issues in Educational Leadership Series .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-177) and index.

Taking a distributed perspective / James P. Spillane and John B. Diamond -- Spanning the boundary between school leadership and classroom instruction at Hillside Elementary School / Amy F. Coldren -- Systems of practice and professional community : the Adams case / Richard R. Halverson -- Cultivating high expectations in an urban elementary school : the case of Kelly School / John B. Diamond -- The leadership struggle : the case of Costen Elementary School / Tim Hallett -- The practice of leadership in mathematics and language arts : the Adams case / Jennifer Zoltners Sherer -- School leadership practice and the school subject : the Baxter case / Patricia Burch -- A distributed perspective on and in practice / James P. Spillane and John B. Diamond.

9780807748077 ( cloth) 9780807748060 ( pbk) RM197.12


Educational leadership--United States--Case studies.
School management and organization--United States--Case studies.