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<p>Leadership within the early childhood education (ECE) sector in New Zealand is both positionally assigned and a required practice of all teachers. Within this context, distributed leadership – where all team members have the opportunity to lead – is increasingly seen as an effective leadership model. This article reports on a study whose aim was to discover practices of effective positional leaders in facilitating distributed leadership. A nationwide survey was carried out in Aotearoa New Zealand to capture a picture of current perceptions of ECE teachers and positional leaders about distributed leadership for professional learning. Subsequently, leadership practices for distributed leadership in three previously-identified high quality ECE services were investigated through individual and group interviews. The analysis of literature, survey and interview findings from this study led to a framework of effective leadership practice, consisting of: mentoring and coaching; fostering relational trust; and creating vision and designing supportive structures.</p>
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Leadership within the early childhood education (ECE) sector in New Zealand is both positionally assigned and a required practice of all teachers. Within this context, distributed leadership – where all team members have the opportunity to lead – is increasingly seen as an effective leadership model. This article reports on a study whose aim was to discover practices of effective positional leaders in facilitating distributed leadership. A nationwide survey was carried out in Aotearoa New Zealand to capture a picture of current perceptions of ECE teachers and positional leaders about distributed leadership for professional learning. Subsequently, leadership practices for distributed leadership in three previously-identified high quality ECE services were investigated through individual and group interviews. The analysis of literature, survey and interview findings from this study led to a framework of effective leadership practice, consisting of: mentoring and coaching; fostering relational trust; and creating vision and designing supportive structures.

Effective leadership practices leading to distributed leadership

Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice

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Leadership within the early childhood education (ECE) sector in New Zealand is both positionally assigned and a required practice of all teachers. Within this...

Effective leadership practices leading to distributed leadership

Published Online: Jun 03, 2019

Page range: 33 - 45

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/jelpp-2017-0016

Keywords
Distributed leadership, early childhood education, professional learning communities, coaching and mentoring, relational trust, professional learning

© 2017 Rachel Denee et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Effective leadership practices leading to distributed leadership

Published Online: Jun 03, 2019

Page range: 33 - 45

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/jelpp-2017-0016

KeywordsDistributed leadership, early childhood education, professional learning communities, coaching and mentoring, relational trust, professional learning

© 2017 Rachel Denee et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Distributed leadership, early childhood education, professional learning communities, coaching and mentoring, relational trust, professional learning