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Crespo, Cecilia I.. Distributed school leadership and its influence on teaching capacity. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3CN766W

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TitleDistributed school leadership and its influence on teaching capacity
NameCrespo, Cecilia I. (author); Baker, Bruce D (chair); Firestone, William F (internal member); Mangin, Melinda (internal member); Rutgers University; Graduate School of Education
Date Created2016
Other Date2016-10 (degree)
SubjectEducational Leadership, Edcuational leadership, School management and organization
Extent1 online resource (x, 147 p. : ill.)
DescriptionCurrent educational reforms call for higher student leaning standards. The result is greater accountability for teaching and learning than ever before. School leadership mediates reform implementation so that the intent of the policy is transferred into teaching practice. I suggest that how teachers make sense of leadership reform activities affects their ability to modify teaching and learning in their classroom. Yet, management and accountability tasks consume the school administrators' time. A distribution of leadership is necessary to ensure that instructional reforms affect teaching practices in the classroom. The distribution of leadership varies from school to school. Thus, little is known about how leadership is distributed. Even less is known about how school leadership affects teachers and their teaching practice. Through this investigation I examine school leadership's effect on dimension of teaching capacity during instructional reform. I use a mixed-method case study of one urban Middle school to understand how teachers experience, both, distributed leadership and activities related to their practice during instructional reforms. I examined: 1) what school leadership for instructional improvement looks like, 2) sources of leadership teachers look to for support, and 3) the connectivity between distributed leadership and three dimensions of teaching capacity. This study highlights three major findings. First, leadership is distributed formally and informally, among people and tasks. Second, teachers seek administrators and other positional leaders for communicating expectations and providing resources. They look to informal teacher leaders within their peer groups for encouragement, practical support, and resources in areas that are more closely relate to classroom instruction. A third major finding is that dimensions of teaching capacity could be identified in three dimensions (human capital, social capital and decision capital). The enactment of distributed leadership has indirect, yet significant, effects on teachers. Dimension of teaching capacity can be manipulated by leadership to provide instructional support and increase teaching capacity during reform implementation. This suggests that school leadership could identify and refine reform activities to affect teaching and learning in the classroom.
NoteEd.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Noteby Cecilia I. Crespo
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3CN766W
Languageeng
CollectionGraduate School of Education Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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