Developing Distributed Leadership: Understanding the Role Boundary Tools in Developing and Sustaining Leadership for Learning Networks

数学和科学伙伴关系（MSP）旨在连接彼此非常不同的机构。 这些项目的领导力挑战是巨大的。这是一个为期一年的设计补助金，以支持研究计划的发展，重点是领导力作为MSP的分布式实践。 我们的目标是设计一个研究计划，重点是a）分布式领导实践，使知识创造和创新的MSP和B）提供有关如何分布式领导改变学区的做法，高等教育机构和社区组织致力于改善数学和科学学习的经验证据。 此外，该项目将确定可用于研究分布式领导的现有工具和手段，设计开发新工具的框架，并开始在选定的城市学校中对这些工具进行初步测试。 设计工作的重点将是高中，因为他们与其他机构的互动。

Math and Science Partnerhips (MSPs) are designed to connect institutions that are very different from one another. The leadership challenge in these projects is immense. This is a one-year design grant to support the development of a program of research to focus on leadership as a distributed practice in MSPs. The goal will be to design a research program that focuses on a) distributed leadership practices that enable knowledge creation and innovation in MSPs and b) provide empirical evidence about how distributed leadership changes the practices of school districts, higher education institutions and community organizations committed to improving mathematics and science learning. In addition, the project will identify existing tools and instruments that can be used to study distributed leadership, design a framework for developing new tools, and begin a preliminary testing of those tools with a select group of urban schools. The focus during the design work will be on high schools as they interact with the other institutions.