ABSTRACT
Sharing leadership roles, duties, and authority is central to a pedagogy of empowerment or empowerment in any domain. Leaders can self-examine in a number of ways. They can simply do a reflective internal inventory of the degree to which they want to and actually do empower others and who is omitted. In fact, the servant leadership model we presented in the chapter on leadership includes Empowerment explicitly as one of the eight virtues of Melinda Bier’s CViL model of servant leadership. A specific aspect of sharing leadership is to look at school structures relevant to leadership, such as school committees. The use and nature of committees varies very widely, so it is difficult to generalize. Organizational culture starts with the leader. This is as true of the leader of the whole school for all members of the school as it is for the leader of the classroom for all members of the classroom.
