What are teacher communities? What are they after? How do they begin? Do they evolve through stages? How alike or different are they from one another? And how are such communities built? This account of an urban and a suburban school, the author attempts to provide answers to these questions.
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Joel Westheimer is Assistant Professor of Education and a Fellow of the Center for the Study of American Culture and Education at New York University.
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The idea of community is . . . elusive. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
teacher professional communities, teacher professional community, middle grade task force, instructional supervisors, staff development days, target teachers, teacher community, teacher communities, collective mission, faculty community, interdisciplinary curriculum, language arts teacher Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Awareness Month, Wright Mills, Leadership Team, Tom Conner, Richard Morales, Bruce Allen, Jill Fullan, Martin Luther King New!
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- The Moral Commonwealth: Social Theory and the Promise of Community (Centennial Books) by Philip Selznick on page 8
- Symbolizing America by Herve Varenne in Back Matter
- Building Community in Schools (Jossey-Bass Education Series) by Thomas J. Sergiovanni in Back Matter
- The Far Side ® by Gary Larson on page 24
- Democracy in America (Signet Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville in Back Matter
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- Steal This University: The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement by Benjamin Johnson in Back Matter
- Transitions in American Education : A Social History of Teaching (Studies in the History of Education) by Donald Parkerson in Back Matter
- Transitions in American Education : A Social History of Teaching (Studies in the History of Education) by Donald Parkerson in Back Matter
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