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Measuring Distributed Leadership

May 1, 2006

How is the work of managing and leading schools distributed among people in schools? An exclusive focus on formally designated leaders may miss an important dimension of how the work of leading and managing schools is distributed among staff, even those with no formal leadership designation. Focusing on the organization “as designed,” rather than the organization “as lived,” appears to underestimate the role of actors with no formal leadership designation. UW Madison Education Professor Eric Camburn and colleagues study how school leadership is distributed across school staff: data source (top down and bottom up) and data focus (the organization as designed versus the organization as lived). More about Camburn’s current work is available here.