Math and Science Partnerhips (MSPs) are designed to connect institutions
that are very different from one another. The leadership challenge in
these projects is immense. This is a one-year design grant to support
the development of a program of research to focus on leadership as a distributed
practice in MSPs. The goal will be to design a research program that
focuses on a) distributed leadership practices that enable knowledge creation
and innovation in MSPs and b) provide empirical evidence about how distributed
leadership changes the practices of school districts, higher education
institutions and community organizations committed to improving mathematics
and science learning. In addition, the project will identify existing
tools and instruments that can be used to study distributed leadership,
design a framework for developing new tools, and begin a preliminary testing
of those tools with a select group of urban schools. The focus during
the design work will be on high schools as they interact with the other
institutions.
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