Core Questions:

1. What does distributed leadership look like? What works well? What are the challenges?
2. Leading from the middle: how to best collaborate with our superiors and work when there is dissonance--feedback loop coming and going. . . how best to manage up?
3. How is the leadership team structured at different schools? Titles; interrelationship, frequency of meetings?
4. How is leadership assumed and exercised at the school as opposed to bossing or exercising authority? We'd like toe xplore how other people receive this--for instance Emma come to my (Jonatahn's) school and gather data about leadership at the school.
5. How do teachers take on certain roles at schools? Committee leadership, community leadership: why do they take on these roles, how do they feel about it? How can we nurture them more?
6. If I want to be a resonant leader, how do I maintain my own equilibrium with my most challenging colleagues--people who are regularly negative and dissonant? What atrategies can I come up with to change their dissonant behavior--and or my reaction to their behavior?
7. Is it only by changing ourselves that we change school culture In changing ourselves, do we really change the whole dynamic, which opens the door to culture change?
8. How do I understand why dissonant people feel the way they do? Are those dissonant voices actually the sand in the oyster? How do we discern that? Or perhaps we should not worry about trying to lubricate the wheel with the sand in it and instead grow cells of strength. . .
9. How do we create buy-in around the difficult topics? Especially around parents, who are less invested in the community and therefore not as accountable. . .?
10. How do administrators get feedback? Some admins get no feedback from below or above?