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

数学和科学合作伙伴(MSP)旨在将彼此非常不同的机构联系起来。这些项目的领导力挑战是巨大的。这是一项为期一年的设计拨款，旨在支持一项研究计划的发展，该计划的重点是将领导力作为MSP中的一种分布式实践。其目标将是设计一项研究计划，重点是a)分布式领导实践，使MSP能够创造和创新知识，以及b)提供实证证据，说明分布式领导如何改变学区、高等教育机构和致力于改善数学和科学学习的社区组织的实践。此外，该项目将确定可用于研究分布式领导的现有工具和工具，设计开发新工具的框架，并开始在选定的一组城市学校中对这些工具进行初步测试。在设计工作期间，重点将放在高中与其他机构的互动上。

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.