Distributing leadership to make schools smarter: Taking the ego out of the system

Distributed Leadership According to the Evidence

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 223-251

  Leithwood, Kenneth ^a   Mascall, Blair ^a   Strauss, Tiiu ^a   Sacks, Robin ^a   Memon, Nadeem ^a   Yashkina, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 84917304082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203868539     Document Type: Chapter

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