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Angela M. Lyle; James P. Spillane; Christa Haverly – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2024
Purpose: Most empirical work using a distributed perspective to frame research on leadership practice uses the school as the unit of analysis, focusing on how leadership is stretched over people and aspects of the situation within schools. This study investigates leadership practice for elementary science, using a multilevel distributed framework,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Instructional Leadership, Educational Change, Leadership Styles
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Emily Rose Seeber; James P. Spillane; Xiaoyu Yin; Christa Haverly; Weiyu Quan – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
Reforming instruction is challenging. In this comparative case study of 12 school districts, we investigated the dilemmas that emerged for system leaders as they engaged in system building for elementary science and the approaches leaders took in managing them. We found that system leaders' efforts to manage their environments contributed to the…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary School Science, Science Education, Educational Development