TITLE Educatilv Democracy: The Role of Systemic

This monograph explores the notion of viewing leadership as a single, interconnecting system at work in the internal and external school environment, rather than as a collection of individual roles. The document explores what the new leadership paradigm--a decentralized, collaborative model--means to schools. Leadership is viewed as an interrelated system joined at all levels, with common purpose and exercised according to organizational and community culture. Section 1 considers the idea that, if educators had understood that the restructuring movement were a democratic experiment, the results might have been far different. The section weighs the value of continuing the restructuring experiment and recommends a new role for school leaders to understand their role to help the experiment succeed. Section 2 explores the school leader's role in striking several balances central to a democracy, and sectio