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Shared leadership demonstrates a shift in thinking. Shared leadership leads schools and divisions to function with multiple leaders by accessing, at differing times, individual strengths and talents. Although definite barriers to this model exist, a level of synergy can be experienced when shared leadership is successfully implemented. By investigating this new approach, we may improve our ability to attract educational leaders.  \nThe definition of leadership, a term that has existed in education for years, has evolved and changed as society has, and leaders have evolved to rise and meet societal expectations. The role of educational leader has become more complex, demanding, and stressful. This challenging role lacks appeal for many educators and, as a result, educational leadership is once again being re-examined. Shared leadership has surfaced with the potential to broaden our perspective beyond the current practice of one leader and several followers. The days of one-person leadership are over, as it leaves the talents of teachers relatively untouched and school improvement relatively unstable (Lambert, 2002) . Shared leadership has distinctive characteristics, specific roles for principals and teachers, advantages, and definite barriers, all of which need to be examined if school principals wish to implement shared leadership as their practice.  \nAs much as educators have tried, they have failed to establish a model of shared leadership that can be spread across many different schools (Lindahl, 2008) . Leadership today needs to initiate strategies for encouraging leadership from all members of a school community, regardless of their position (Frost, 2008) . A roadblock is the lack of differentiation between the concepts of leadership and administration. Leadership involves leading people, whereas administration involves managing things (Lindahl, 2008) . Shared leadership offers the opportunity to lead people in more ways than simply sharing administrative duties that teachers see as unsatisfying. It takes teachers beyond their classroom doors and transfers leadership roles from an individual to a school. In shared leadership, individuals are committed to improved student learning through participatory decision-making (Margolis, 2008) . In order to be sustainable, shared leadership is not to be looked at as another practice, but rather a new way of conceptualizing current leadership.  \nAt first glance, some may view shared leadership as another form of teacher collaboration. Shared leadership, however, is more than just collaboration, as it focuses on the results from an activity and not on the label given to the activity (Harris, 2004) . For example, a study group of high school math teachers collaborate, ask reflective questions, and challenge their teaching practices in grade nine mathematics. As a result, new lessons are developed and the scores of the students improve. Shared leadership is identified as the result of the action, the increased scores, not the practice of the study group (Spillane, 2009) . Shared leadership is concerned with professional knowledge, but is more concerned with teachers’ roles in the creation of that knowledge, and in its transfer to other educators and students alike (Frost, 2008) . The core of shared leadership involves educators being responsible for the learning of their colleagues, more than collaborating with each other.  \nShared leadership has been identified as a practice of collective leadership, wherein teachers develop expertise by working together. Shared leadership focuses on engaging  \nexpertise wherever it exists within an organization, rather than looking only to the people holding formal positions (Harris, 2004) . 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