Title: Distributed Leadership and Capacity for Improvement of Secondary Schools
Abstract: The article we submit is an approach to the study of leadership on secondary schools and seeks to verify the presence or absence of distributed leadership arranged in a sample of 24 secondary schools in the Granada province. Applying a mixed methodology in which self-analysis outlines and semi-structured interviews are combined, it comes to the conclusion that the actual leadership model in the analysed secondary schools sample is a bureaucratic one supported by the figure of a director acting on his/her own. Although the sample used for the study is limited, the article encourages the refl ection on the need to defi ne the director figure as a key element in order to stimulate secondary schools' improvement capacity.