Traditional patterns of organizing leadership in school have tended to emphasize its concentration, seniority, hierarchy and formal position. New configurations are now mooted, based on distributing leadership across all levels of school staff, and expanding leadership as a variable-sum phenomenon; however, while enthusiasm for such changes may be found among policy makers and researchers, it is less common among some practitioners and principals. Workable models have yet to be tested and implications worked out as to how the dynamics of leadership are changed among the different types and levels of staff (for example, the principal becomes “leader of leaders’); the resultant leadership changes are both qualitative and quantitative