Distributed Leadership for Equity & Learning Toolset
Leadership is a characteristic of an organisation as a whole, not just the individual actions of the few who are labelled 'leaders'.
Distributed leadership is based on the proposition that whatever we may think, the reality of life in organisations is that leadership is the outcome of lots of people's
actions and interactions. The power of senior leaders is mediated by what people do, or do not do, across the organisation.
What is distributed leadership for equity and learning (DLE)?
DLE is leadership which is enacted by everyone in the school, emerges from a supportive set of organisational features and works for inclusive,
DLE includes leadership by students, teachers and support staff, each of whom brings their unique skills, ideas and experience, and emerges from a particular
combination of supportive organisational features.
A video by Amanda Roberts and Philip Woods (University of Hertfordshire, UK).
Supportive organisational features