 Facilitated leadership is something that I think has to be in a modern school, particularly in a large school. Now by distributed leadership, I mean that while the school principal might be the last stop in the chain, there are a lot of other people who have the power to make decisions to shape activities, that the responsibility of running the school is shared among a number of people. That's what my understanding of distributed leadership is. So I would think that in establishing school partnerships, you can't do it unless you have distributed leadership, you know, because the principal can't do this all by themselves. They have too many other administrative tasks to do. But a distributed leadership pattern will allow you to use the powers, use the good, the strengths if you like of your staff. You have say a staff involved in business studies, for example. They can be in charge in liaising with local industries and on all the the benefits that that can accrue to a school. You may have teachers who are very interested in international project work. They can be involved in e-twinning. They can bring the rest of the world into your school through these virtual platforms through virtual project work. But you can't do that as a school principal. You have to empower and trust these people to do it for you. And yes, I think that you can't have school partnerships without distributed leadership in my opinion.