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Richard Halverson and colleagues have developed a distributed perspective of leadership to study how professional community evolves in urban elementary schools. The "distributed leadership" perspective aims to clarify how (and whether) the everyday tasks of leadership are woven together to help meet a school's instructional goals. The connection between these tasks is distributed socially, across the work of formal and informal leaders; and situationally, in the way the local school environment enables and constrains task conception and enactment. The design and use of artifacts such as a school improvement plan shows how the context shapes leadership practice, and also how leaders can shape their contexts. For more information, see http://dls.sesp.northwestern.edu/.