Distributive Leadership Blog 5

Distributive leadership is the sharing of leadership between two or more individuals. This type of leadership has many names, such as shared, dispersed, relational, roving, collective, group-centered, broad-based, participatory, fluid, inclusive, and supportive leadership. In schools today, as the workload of administrators is constantly increasing, shared leadership is becoming widespread.
 School administrators cannot be everywhere at one time, they have begun to implement this type of leadership. Some schools distribute the leadership power between two administrators, while other schools involve teachers and parents, creating a group where there is no central leader in charge. As a result, numerous aspects of the schools or educational systems are attended to more fully and improvement is significant.
 At my school site the school distributes the leadership power among the three administrators, content specialist and the counselors.  Everyone has his or her task to do to help make things run smoothly and it seems to work very well for this school. 

Leadership theories Blog 4

Teacher leaders are a source of creativity development of unique forms of leadership.

These are essential tasks that guarantee the survival of the school as an organization. Yet, for the

school to transform itself into an institution, a learning community must emerge. Transactional leadership is affected by working with people and the work environment.  Transformational leadership is a contingency approach through culture, structure, symbols, politics and even gender.  Leadership needs and styles change from situations involving two variables; process and context. Leaders must work in different ways and change their styles to suit the situation.  Different patterns of behaviors grouped together to form leadership styles: concern for task, concern for people, directive and particpative.  Effectiveness of style depend on the contxt or setting in which it is used.  The leadership style theory that closely matches my approach would be concern for the people.  Concern for the people motivates the people to get involved and the more involvement the better the community can be to impact the future of our students.