... Professional education Learning Gender Race Leadership is a normative, collective, and relational social practice (Blackmore, 1999). It is value‐driven and ridden, political, and people intensive work that seeks to change, or tap into, values in order to change practices. Professional and moral...

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... Leadership Organizational development Organizational change Professional education Distributed leadership is unlikely to happen if schools stay as they are. Schools are unlikely to transform themselves without distribution of leadership roles (Jackson and Temperley, 2007). The leadership...

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... administrators, generally experienced, professional educators, become resistant, cynical, and frustrated in preparation programs and professional development activities that are often created with little regard for their interests, needs, and input. Because PI 34 in the state of Wisconsin adopted the six...

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