The purpose of this paper is to present findings from a study of a 3-year leadership development initiative designed to enhance the leadership capacities of 10 school leaders from a consortium of rural, high-poverty school districts. The initiative provided cross-district, job-embedded, and personalized leadership development through leadership coaching in a professional community. The findings highlight what the leaders learned about involving and interacting differently with others for shared effort and ownership; enabling distributed leadership for increased capacity; using a systematic process for school improvement; and approaching school improvement with a new mindset. We conclude the article with implications for further research and practice.

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学习引领学校改进：农村学校领导力发展分析

本文的目的是展示一项为期 3 年的领导力发展计划的研究结果，该计划旨在提高来自农村、高贫困学区财团的 10 名学校领导的领导能力。该计划通过在专业社区中进行领导力辅导，提供跨地区、嵌入工作和个性化的领导力发展。调查结果强调了领导者在参与和以不同方式与他人互动以共享努力和所有权方面学到了什么；启用分布式领导以提高能力；使用系统的过程来改进学校；并以新的心态接近学校的改进。我们总结了本文对进一步研究和实践的影响。