Distributed Leadership Presenters Names Pdraig Mc Cabe Mary

Distributed Leadership Presenters’ Names: Pádraig Mc Cabe Mary Keane Finbarr Hurley Norma O’ Brien Leadership Clusters Opening Seminar February 28 th 2019 The Sheraton Hotel, Athlone

This Workshop will: • Interrogate what constitutes DL and what it is not • Explore research on DL • Assist clusters to apply this learning to their projects

Looking at our School (2016) Developing Leadership Capacity • Critique practice and develop an understanding of effective and sustainable leadership • Empower staff to take on and carry out leadership roles • Promote and facilitate student voice, student participation, and leadership • Build professional networks with other school leaders

Leadership In a world of global networks, we face issues for which top down leadership is inherently inadequate (Senge 2006) Cultural Shift around Leadership

Working Together Involves • • • Listening Trust, openness, honesty, Being non-judgemental, Being open to learning Critique leadership practices

Think – Pair - Share • What do you understand by the term distributed leadership? • What does it look like? • What is it not?

A definition of Distributed Leadership (Harris 2008) Leadership shared and extended within and between organisations

The Difference Distributed Leadership Makes Improved: • Student learning experiences and outcomes • Teacher morale and self efficacy • Organisational outcomes Harris 2008

Distributed Leadership: 3 Levels (Harris, 2008) • Superficial level -delegation • Subterranean level-new teams, new roles and responsibilities • Deep level-cultural-the way we work in our school

Reflective Challenge • How can you use this project to progress Distributed Leadership to the next level in your school? Cultural Subterranea n Superficia l

“Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is about growing others” Jack Welsh quoted in Lowe (2017 )

With your Project in Mind • How and in what form can you maximise the impact of DL on Teaching and Learning? • What structures, practices or agencies can you use to develop leadership capacity as part of this project? • Identify two things that you will do when you go back to school

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