Esta investigación es un estudio de caso de un centro de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria, se persigue el mismo objetivo que el proyecto del que forma parte, que es: conocer las prácticas exitosas de liderazgo para la mejora de los resultados académicos. Se ha utilizado el estudio de caso como metodología y la entrevista y la revisión de documentos como instrumentos de investigación. Los resultados obtenidos resaltan las características y estrategias exitosas de liderazgo para conseguir buenos resultados académicos aun siendo un centro con unas características no demasiado favorecedoras. Los resultados indican que el director desarrolla un liderazgo distribuido y participativo, subrayando las características relacionadas con su carácter, formación, capacidad de mejora, de conseguir desarrollar un ambiente favorable hacia el trabajo tanto para el alumnado como el profesorado, el compartir una visión clara y para ello trabajar de un modo conjunto con la comunidad educativa (alumnado, profesorado, familias, etc.). Las conclusiones obtenidas están relacionadas con los resultados del proyecto ISSPP, relativas a: la personalización de la experiencia de aprendizaje, el trabajo colaborativo de los docentes, la retroalimentación de la comunidad educativa para la mejora de la escuela, entre otras.Descriptores: Liderazgo; Director; Mejora; Justicia Social; Escuela.This research is a case study of a compulsory secondary education center, the same objective is pursued as the project of which it is part that is: to know the successful practices of leadership for the improvement of academic results. The case study has been used as a methodology and the interview and the review of documents as research instruments. The results obtained are focused on highlighting the characteristics and successful leadership strategies to achieve good academic results. The results indicate that the director develops a distributed and participative leadership, underlining the characteristics related to his character, training, capacity for improvement, of developing a favorable environment towards work both for students and teachers, to share a clear vision and to do this, work in a joint way with the educational community (students, teachers, families, etc.). The conclusions obtained are related to the results of the ISSPP project, related to: the personalization of the learning experience, the collaborative work of the teachers, the feedback of the educational community for the improvement of the school, among others.

Equal opportunities is an objective to be achieved in a sustainable society, as formulated by various sustainable development objectives. Inclusive education refers to the right of all people to education, guaranteeing the presence, participation, and progress of all students and, above all, equal opportunities. However, today, it is a dual and controversial issue, as it appears among the strategies and objectives planned at international and European levels, but its application and real development is still far from being a right with guarantees. Moreover, the concept of integration remains in most areas and many education policies. Therefore, the objective of this work is to establish which integration and inclusion measures favor equal opportunities. The study offers, as a major novelty, the results of empirical research, which provides a scientific framework to this process of equal opportunities. It is approached from the perspective of teaching staff with a sample of 133 professionals. The results are analyzed through factorial analysis and multiple linear regression. The results show that the aspects related to inclusion (measures of attention to diversity, high knowledge about inclusion, and adapting the system to inclusion) have a significant positive effect. The integration of students reduces equal opportunities in a statistically significant way. The results are of interest for educational policies and for decision-making and strategies to achieve sustainability and inclusion in the school environment.

There is a growing interest in the study of active methodologies, especially cooperative learning. It will allow for skills related to the positive interdependence between the components of a group, individual responsibility, the encouragement of interaction, and the development of social skills to be put into practice by pre-service teachers, as well as for the sharing and assertiveness of the ideas of teamwork. The purpose of this study is to predict those variables that significantly positively affect pre-service teachers’ perceptions about the use of cooperative learning methodology in their initial training at university once it has been put into practice in the classroom for 3 months. For this, a quasi-experimental design was implemented to enable its practice, and subsequently the perceptions of the pre-service teachers were collected through the use of a questionnaire. The sample was composed of 140 pre-service teachers from the Faculty of Education of the University of Almeria (Spain). The overall results of the study determined that the interest of pre-service teachers in their subject, age, attendance of practical classes, and the type of education level they have had access to positively affect the perceptions of pre-service teachers, while positive academic performance causes a decline. These findings highlight the need to continue research, mainly on the question of why working in cooperative groups causes a decrease in academic performance.

ResumenEste ensayo trata de dar una visión general de aspectos a considerar en la intervención educativa del alumnado con altas capacidades intelectuales. Por ello, trata sobre esta necesidad educativa, las características que presenta el alumnado y cómo se manifiestan. Además de dar un enfoque sobre la atención a la diversidad y la inclusión de este estudiantado dentro de clase y fuera de ella. Un aspecto significativo a resaltar es la importancia que tienen, tanto familias como docentes a la hora de atender las necesidades educativas que presentan estos niños y niñas.http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/rep.12-1.4 Recibido: 13 de setiembre de 2016-Aprobado: 9 de mayo de 2017 1 Lina Higueras-Rodríguez es personal de investigación en formación de la Universidad de Granada (España). Miembro del grupo de investigación FORCE y del proyecto "Atlántida, educación y culturas democráticas". Máster en Intervención Psicopedagógica. Las áreas de investigación incluyen: Formación inicial de docentes, herramientas educativas para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje y, actualmente, liderazgo y mejoramiento de la escuela mediante la colaboración en el proyecto Internacional "ISSPP".

El presente artículo se corresponde con una revisión sistemática que analiza la relación del liderazgo, en su variante distribuida con las comunidades profesionales de aprendizaje, ambos conceptos muy demandados por las investigaciones internacionales. El proceso ha seguido patrones llevados a cabo en otras revisiones sistemáticas indexadas en revistas de gran impacto, para augurar la sistematicidad del mismo. Durante el mismo, se hizo una búsqueda minuciosa de artículos ubicados en la base de datos Scopus, durante el periodo 2008 a 2017. Tras la aplicación de los criterios de inclusión, 18 artículos constituyeron la muestra del presente artículo. Los artículos seleccionados ponen de relieve la fuerte influencia del liderazgo en la transformación de los centros educativos en comunidades profesionales de aprendizaje. A su vez, se ha corroborado una tendencia hacia modalidades distribuidas de liderazgo como mecanismo garante de mejoras instruccionales en los centros. Existe cierta coincidencia en resaltar la importancia de ciertos factores como la colaboración docente, una mayor flexibilidad de las estructuras organizativas o el empoderamiento del profesorado como vía para potenciar el capital profesional del personal, al tiempo que se generan cambios internos en la organización conducentes a una mejora escolar.Descriptores: Liderazgo; Educación; Cultura; Organización; Comunidad.This article corresponds to a systematic review that analyzes the relationship of leadership, in its distributed variant with professional learning communities, both concepts highly demanded by international research. The process has followed patterns carried out in other systematic reviews indexed in high impact journals, to predict its systematic. During the same, a thorough search was made of articles located in the Scopus database, during the period 2008 to 2017. After the application of the inclusion criteria, 18 articles constituted the sample of the present article. The selected articles highlight the strong influence of leadership in the transformation of educational centers into professional learning communities. At the same time, a trend toward distributed leadership modalities has been corroborated as a guarantor mechanism for instructional improvements in the schools. So is a certain coincidence in highlighting the importance of certain factors such as teacher collaboration, greater flexibility of organizational structures or the empowerment of teachers as a way to enhance the professional capital of staff, while generating internal changes in the organization leading to a school improvement.