چکیده (انگلیسی):

If schools are to meet the needs of students and achieve educational success, to
achieve both goals simultaneously, they should provide opportunities for teachers to
innovate, share experiences and learn together. Schools should thus be configured as
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs). This article links this term to building
the collective capacity of the school through distributed leadership. It combines in a
mixed design the description of the situation in Elementary and Secondary schools
of Andalusia, with in-depth case studies, properly selected, that can show progress
in their levels of educational success, according to the degree of distributed
leadership development that promotes the development of the school as a PLC. We
are more interested in practices that evidence success in education achievements
rather than in good practices. One of the main aims of the research proposal is to
identify and describe the conditions and processes in which direction’s leadership
enables the development of schools as PLCs.