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Innovative leadership

noun

Innovative leadership refers to any leadership approach that departs from traditional heirarchical structures. This includes both formal structures and informal leadership styles. For example, a school may have a principal with a collaborative leadership style that introduces innovative leadership practices, or a school may have innovative leadership structures and practices such as a distributed leadership model.

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This glossary is a collection of terms related to teacher-powered schools — namely, terms around teachers, leadership, governance, collaboration, and teams.