Educational leadership for learning

Instructional and distributed leadership are regarded as important for creating and sustaining professional learning communities and for creating a climate conducive to student learning. This chapter addresses these issues by first examining how school leadership is defined in this report. The second part of the chapter desribes the core characteristics of professional learning communities and a learning climate in schools. In the third part, the role of school leadership in creating a learning environment in schools is examined. The fourth section explores leadership roles conducive to the development of professional learning communities in schools.