This is a one-year design grant to support the development of a program of research to focus on leadership as a distributed practice in MSPs. The goal will be to design a research program that focuses on
- distributed leadership practices that enable knowledge creation and innovation in MSPs and
- provide empirical evidence about how distributed leadership changes the practices of school districts, higher education institutions and community organizations committed to improving mathematics and science learning.
In addition, the project will identify existing tools and instruments that can be used to study distributed leadership, design a framework for developing new tools, and begin a preliminary testing of those tools with a select group of urban schools. The focus during the design work will be on high schools as they interact with the other institutions.
The Principal Investigator of Developing Distributed Leadership is James Spillane.
More information can be
found on a separate web site created by this project: http:// www.distributedleadership.org.
This site was created to enhance communication and collaboration
between partners within the Dist. Leadership
project as well as to inform the public of the efforts of the Math
and Science Partnership Program. While selected documents in the
library and resources sections have been made available
to the public, only logged in members of the
Developing Distributed Leadership project can post comments,
participate or read posts in the Working Groups, or see the interactive
Calendar.
