Acknowledgements Contributors' Notes Section 1 Setting the Scene Introduction 1. Distributed Leadership: What we Know Alma Harris Section 2 Empirical Perspectives 2. Chapter 2 Investigating Connections between Distributed Leadership and Instructional Change Eric M. Camburn and Seong Won Han 3.Taking a Distributed Perspective in Studying School Leadership & Management: The Challenge of Study Operations James P. Spillane, Eric M. Camburn, James Pustejovsky,Amber Stitziel Pareja, Geoff Lewis 4. The Relationship Between Distributed Leadership and Teachers' Academic Optimism Blair Mascall, Kenneth Leithwood, Tiiu Strauss, and Robin Sacks 5. Distributed Leadership in Schools: Does System Policy Make a Difference? Philip Hallinger and Ronald H. Heck Section 3 Practical Perspectives 6. Capacity building through layered leadership: Sustaining the Turnaround Christopher Day 7. The Relationship between Distributed Leadership and Action Learning in schools: A Case Study Stephen Dinham Section 4 Conceptual/ Theoretical Perspectives 8. The Role of Sensemaking and Trust in Developing Distributed Leadership Karen Seashore Louis, David Meyrowetz, Mark Smiley, Joseph Murphy 9. Distributed Leadership: Democracy or Delivery Andrew Hargreaves and Dean Fink Section 5 Future Perspectives 10. From distributed to hybrid leadership practice Peter Gronn 11. Fit for Purpose: An Educationally Relevant Account of Distributed Leadership. Viviane Robinson 12. Coda Alma Harris