ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a model of multilevel distributed leadership in education, which integrates diverse sources of leadership across the education sector, as a tool for improved teaching and supporting equal opportunity. The framework is offered as a response to an environment of narrowing perspectives of learning and educational goals characterised by leadership siloes and increasingly focused on administration and testing. Student learning is both the subject and object of educational leadership. The concept of ‘instructional leadership’ contributed to bringing leadership for teaching more attention in research on school administration. A related part of diagnostic work involves understanding the structure of the social relationships among staff, whether they are personal, professional, or a mix of both. The relationships that support accessing and activating essential resources for teaching don’t happen naturally. The educational sector consists of all organisations engaged in work related to schooling.
