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Make an impact on student achievement by becoming intensively involved in curricular and instructional issues. To be effective, share leadership with assistant principals, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, and leadership teams. While other areas are important and equally urgent, teaching and learning must be high priorities if student achievement is to be improved.

Develop a basic knowledge of shared leadership and gain insight into how it can help your school become a learning community. This four-week course introduces - definitions of shared leadership, school culture, and professional learning community and describes what these look like when they're present in a school - tools participants use to measure individual and school characteristics related to shared leadership - research on shared leadership and leadership practices identified as having a statistically significant relationship to student achievement - six functions of a school leader who effectively shares leadership: inspire, model, organize, monitor, support, reflect