I created this presentation for an Eluminate webinar; therefore it is mean to be interactive. For this reason, the text is minimal and there is room for participants to overlay their responses on nearly every slide. This model would work well for a NearPod presentation or other interactive tools.

1. Distributed Leadership
Empowerment
Acknowledgement
Collaboration

2. Richard Elmore
Distributed leadership does not mean that no one is responsible
for the overall performance of the organization. It means,
rather, that the job of Administrative leaders is primarily about
enhancing the skills and knowledge of people in the
organization, creating a common culture of expectations
around the use of those skills and knowledge, holding the
various pieces of the organization together in a productive
relationship
with
each
other,
and
holding
individuals
accountable for their contributions to the collective result.

3. Why Distributed Leadership?
“There are an increasing number of studies that highlight a
powerful relationship between distributed forms of leadership
and positive organizational change…patterns of leadership
distribution matter within an organization.”
“[The evidence base] suggests that there is something powerful
and important about distributed leadership. It suggests that
school redesign is unlikely unless patterns of leadership
practice are dramatically altered and flattened.”
Distributed leadership through the looking glass by Alma Harris and James Spillane

4. Common Threads:
5 Great Schools article
Collaboration: Professional Development Focus
Empowerment: Voice in decision-making
process
Focus: Common Goal
Acknowledgement: Freed from other duties to
focus on school-wide goals

5. Other Threads?

6. Leaders: Born or Made?

7. Leaders: Does everyone have
expertise to offer?

8. Do schools need a principal?

9. Principal
Responsibilities
Both
Teacher
Responsibilities

10. What problems could
distributed
leadership solve in
your school?

11. What challenges do
you anticipate if
moving to a
distributed
leadership model?

12. Questions to Ponder
• How is leadership distributed in my school?
• Is this pattern optimum?
• How do we extend leadership distribution to
teachers, parents, and students?