Leadership that is intentionally and thoughtfully distributed across many in a school building has the potential to bring about positive change for all students and to empower and engage teachers in such a way that makes them more likely to stay in the classroom. Given the potential of distributed leadership, understanding it more deeply is critical for schools to see the potential benefits. This study has sought to accomplish that goal by first creating two measures of distributed leadership that can be applied to a wide range of schools using a state-wide teacher perception survey. One measure (DL 1) was created using a literature review on distributed leadership to identify questions from the North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey that illustrate this concept. The other measure (DL 2) used confirmatory factor analysis to identify questions from this same survey that were indicators of the underlying factor of distributed leadership. Then this paper compared these two measures of distributed leadership with specific school characteristics, focusing on teacher turnover rates at the school level. After controlling for the school characteristics of poverty, academic achievement, academic growth, school level and the district for a school, a small but statistically significant correlation between the distributed leadership measures and teacher turnover rates still remained. Thus distributed leadership, as understood using the measures identified from the North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey, correlates with teacher turnover rates. Now with the first measure of distributed leadership (DL1), school and district administrators can use it to target schools for growth in this area, set goals for schools and for school principals, and monitor implementation of a distributed model. With the second measure (DL2), researchers can better understand distributed leadership and its impact on students, staff, and schools. Distributed leadership has the potential to lead us forward towards better schools for learning and better schools in which to work. This paper helps us move closer to realizing how. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]