Career and Technical Education Secondary Female Teachers: Leadership Attributes

The literature on leadership in education indicates that multiple leaders are involved in the leadership of the school, some with and without a formal leadership position (Fullan, 1996; Spillane, 2005). These positions include principals, assistant principals, and teachers. The concept of distributed leadership advocates decentralization of the school leader. This type of leadership suggests that every person in any position can demonstrate leadership in some way (Coleman, 2005). While this view of leadership does not mean that everyone is a leader, it presents the possibility for more fluid and emergent leadership by people at all levels rather than by fixed leadership of the people at the top (Gronn, 2000;Leithwood, Mascall, Strauss, Sacks, Memon, & Yashkina, 2007).