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Susan Lovett is an Associate Professor in Educational Leadership at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her research interests include leadership learning and development, and teacher leadership. In this Q&A, Lovett joins Teacher to discuss what teacher leadership is, and why she believes it is a mistake to attribute school leadership activities only to those residing in formal roles.

Distributed leadership is primarily concerned with the practice of leadership rather than specific leadership roles or responsibilities. It equates with shared, collective and extended leadership practice that builds the capacity for change and improvement.

"While traditional leadership styles accumulate a great extent of power at the top rungs, servant leadership puts other people's need first and shares power with them."

A great example of taking regular teacher librarian practice - curating resources - to a higher level to demonstrate leadership. This is a good example of servant leadership showing how to leverage good practice to not only build Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) but to deliver high quality content with annotations that will increase the skills and educational competence of your network. In a school, you would aim to have all your staff members of that PLN.

Books are like training weights for the brain. And reading the right ones can provide you with powerful leadership lessons in a very short period of time. In this list, we're going to go over 25 powerful books on leadership. Ready? Let's dive in.

"Total Leader by thinking about leadership through the lens of productive change. There are five pillars that make up productive change. Purpose, vision, ownership, capacity, and support. Let's break these down in terms of school librarians and leadership with some examples of what the pillars look like in the world of libraries."

"moving from mere "citizenship" to inspired leadership in digital spaces, using two definitions from George Couros. Digital Citizenship: Using the internet and social media in a responsible and ethical way Digital Leadership: Using the internet and social media to improve the lives, well-being, and circumstances of others."

AITSL resources for school leaders - this collection includes current reading lists, websites, multimedia and books. Although this targets superintendents, principals and senior staff, there is a wealth of information here relevant to educational leadership for all practitioners.

"The old-fashioned view of leadership is that leaders are marked out for leadership from early on in their lives; and that if you are not a born leader, there's little you can do to become one."

I'm an author, business leader and visual facilitator working at intersection of leadership, learning and change. Drawing on his business background Tanmay Vora blogs about individuals, teams and organizations delivering high-performance through process excellence, culture, capability building, coaching, consulting and leadership development interventions.

"The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) has a role to establish a shared and agreed platform from which the quality of teaching and school leadership can continue to grow."

" Instructional leadership and the school principa"

New leadership strategy initiative announced 11.9.17

School librarian Daniella Smith looks at leadership through the lens of the library from different perspectives.

There are a number of different approaches, or 'styles' to leadership and management that are based on different assumptions and theories. The style that individuals use will be based on a combination of their beliefs, values and preferences, as well as the organizational culture and norms which will encourage some styles and discourage others. Under the menu find information about change and change management

All business owners and executives have varying experiences and perspectives on the approach and qualities necessary for effective leadership. And not all situations require the same type of leadership style. Great leaders adapt to their surrounding environments and empower the team to succeed together.

As we continue to look at teachers, students, and learning becoming more "innovative", it is important that leadership changes. As administrators often set the tone for their district or their building, if they are saying the same, it is not likely that things are going to change in the classroom. Leadership needs to not only "think" different, but they need to "act" different.

"For administrators to move beyond operational management to true leadership, they need to understand the capacity of their staff, promote open communication, and provide useful feedback"

"In more than four decades of studying businesses and consulting to organizations on how to implement new strategies, I can't tell you how many times I've heard people use the words "leadership" and "management" synonymously, and it drives me crazy every time. "