Distributing Leadership for Personalizing Learning [Paperback]

This book makes a unique contribution to current thinking by making a link between two current key policy drivers in education: personalized learning and distributed leadership. Ron Ritchie and Ruth Deakin Crick put forward the idea that an effective means of implementing personalizing learning is to adopt distributed approaches to school leadership.? The book builds on the other titles in the NCE Personalizing Learning series, particularly Personalizing Learning: Transforming education for every child by John West-Burnham and Max Coates.Personalizing learning remains a contested concept, interpreted in many different ways by policy makers, researchers and practitioners. However, it is generally agreed to be desirable if, as a result of its implementation, students' individual learning needs are more effectively addressed and it impacts positively on their learning.

Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: What is Personalizing Learning?

Chapter Three: The Nature and Benefit of Distributed Leadership

Chapter Four: Parallels between Personalizing Learning and Distributive Leadership

Chapter Five: Letting Go': The Role of Headteachers

Chapter Six: Releasing Leadership Potential: The Role of Middle Leaders and Subject Leaders in Personalizing Learning

Chapter Seven: The Role of Teachers and Pupils as Leaders: Learning and Leading - A Participatory Pedagogy

Chapter Eight: Leadership Development for Personalized Learning

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