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The knowledge, skill, and behavior required to perform this activity represents a dramatic shift for the systematic training of educational leaders away from the lecture/discussion classroom that characterized educational leadership training for most university programs during the last half of the twentieth century. It doesn’t diminish the importance of knowledge about distributed leadership, but extends this knowledge to an activity that requires an engaged student performing and applying the new learning about distributed leadership in a meaningful way.

Conclusion

Ironically, the argument emerged in the 1940’s that educational leadership preparation was too practitioner oriented. Too many university professors were hired out of K-12 administrative positions and then developed programs oriented around the applied nature of educational leadership. These professors had little trouble distinguishing the importance of an applied curriculum over an academic curriculum. The academic work was about applied practice and the day-to-day running of a school and school district.

The problem with the training of educational leaders, according to practitioners, was that preparation shifted too far in the direction of academic learning during the last half of the twentieth century. The academic culture of the university supported and promoted this orientation to the point of making some programs of educational leadership preparation irrelevant to the practice of school administration in K-12 schools and school districts.

Acquisition of performance ability has again become a recognized expectation to insure that what principals know and can do transfers to the real world of schooling. University preparation is once again connecting academic knowledge to the applied day-to-day responsibility of being a school principal or front line administrator. The match between what professors know and can teach is adding academic and practical value to what principals and superintendents need to know and do for performing their jobs on a day-to-day basis.

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