Interactive Leadership in High School Innovation

Abstract

Leadership is about constructing learning communities where people work together to expand their capabilities to learn and grow. Interactive leaders achieve this end by collaborating to build networks, partnerships, and coalitions among diverse groups and competing priorities—and by letting go of traditional beliefs about hierarchical or top-down leadership.

Teaching Each and All: Harnessing Dynamic Tension in School Reform

“…These teachers were able to take a small idea and build it, often over many years, into a full-scale program that finally engaged all students and accommodated each. In the Vermont study, schools that succeeded at long-term reform had principals who protected their innovating teachers from outside interference, namely opposing parents and other teachers (Clarke, Aiken, and Sullivan 1999).…”