Dr. Alan Gorman:

In the context of this discussion about leadership and roles and responsibilities in schools, it is important that the policy continue to endorse distributed leadership, that it be a shared vision and that there be collective responsibility throughout the school in regard to this. The danger is that if one person takes sole responsibility, it may leave only that person wearing that hat. What we should be looking for is a more distributed leadership, and that has been very much endorsed in policy in recent years, particularly in the area of educational leadership.