ABSTRACT
Leaders who influence outstanding results for all demographic groups help stakeholders believe they have abundant support and abundant capacity to succeed. This chapter discusses the importance of building the capacity of all stakeholders, including students and parents. For many school leaders, the most critical challenge is building the capacity of school personnel. The chapter focuses on the efforts leaders made to build capacity of teachers and other school personnel. Spillane emphasized leadership as a practice or set of actions rather than a position. The distribution of leadership practice was similar in other large National Center for Urban School Transformation award-winning schools such as James Pace Early College High School in Brownsville, Texas; Revere High School near Boston, Massachusetts; and Mallard Creek High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. By distributing and coordinating leadership tasks, principals ensured that teachers had sufficient access to high-quality support. It is important to note that perceptions of reliability were enhanced by leadership stability.
