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How to reinforces distributed school leadership?

This conceptual paper is a part of the research project (supported by the Croatian Science Foundation and University of Rijeka) which broader aim is to identify school leadership characteristics in Croatian schools and to examine the correlation between school leadership and school effectiveness. Starting from the assumption that distributed school leadership is a school effectiveness key factor, the aim of the proposed conference paper is to present favourable circumstances for distributed school leadership development (which indirectly contributes to school effectiveness). As previous research show, leadership as a shared process which is not based on command--and-control hierarchies, but on participatory decision- making, cooperation, mutual support and trust among different stakeholders (principals, teachers, students, parents, education policy creators) plays a key role in school effectiveness. In this paper mentioned favourable circumstances for distributed school leadership development are conceptualized as distributed school leadership facilitators and categorized as follows: (a) principal’s activities (such as providing support to different stakeholders and developing mutual trust among them), (b) stakeholders’ characteristics (such as developed stakeholders’ interest and competence to participate in decision-making process), (c) organizational and material resources (such as school material conditions, the necessary information and time as resources for making decisions). The conceptualization of distributed school leadership facilitators is important for the future research to investigate how to strength distributed school leadership. Thereunto, these findings should be indicative for the principals, education policy creators and other important stakeholders who should ensure favourable circumstances for the distributed school leadership development including principal’s support to different stakeholders ; development of stakeholders’ interest and competence to participate in decision-making process ; and insurance of organizational and material resources in schools.

distributed school leadership, distributed school leadership facilitators ; organizational and material resources ; principal’s activities ; school effectiveness ; stakeholders’ characteristics

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