Leading Collaborative Curriculum and Assessment through Distributed Leadership and Inclusive Practices - A Literature Review
In the evolving landscape of education, schools must respond to the growing complexity of factors, including rapid technological changes, shifting pedagogical expectations, and diverse student needs. These demands call for increasingly adaptive leadership models. Distributed leadership is a compelling approach, shifting leadership from hierarchical structures to a shared responsibility that leverages the expertise of multiple stakeholders. International schools offer a vibrant context for this, as their structural and pedagogical complexity, paired with diverse student populations, requires consistently agile and inclusive leadership. Middle leaders, in particular, are well-positioned to enact this vision by fostering collaboration in curriculum and assessment planning, as they straddle leadership while remaining firmly rooted at the chalkface. This review examines how middle leaders in international schools can enact distributed leadership as a foundation for collaborative practi...