By working toward and arriving at a workable and agreeable solution, Tombaugh's principal and teachers together demonstrated the power and effectiveness of collective leadership.
Cushman (March 1997) further points out that in today's changing and increasingly demanding educational environment, with the best, most dedicated faculty often not given much credit for all they accomplish, and with increasing pressure placed on educational leaders and faculty alike due to national standards and emphasis on test score performance nationwide, the traditional school hierarchy of principal as leader and the rest as followers, works far less successfully than in the past. As Cushman states, leadership must instead spring from "reciprocal processes" that help to identify, and work toward, a common purpose. In other words, in today's complex and increasingly demanding educational environment, schools need all the leaders, working together, that they can get. It is also crucial to optimal school success, Cushman adds, that education leaders; faculty; parents, and the community at large be able to foster, and maintain, a supportive problem-solving atmosphere for all concerned, where hard questions can be discussed and solutions worked toward by all for the common good of a school and/or district. The example of Tombaugh Elementary school's solution, arrived at by everyone's working together, to the problem of how to best teach Spanish speaking students, illustrates the efficacy of shared leadership in operation.
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