Professionalism and Community Perspectives on Reforming Urban Schools [Paperback]

School-based professional community is a concept that portrays teachers as working together towards a set of shared goals of improved professionalism for themselves and increased learning opportunities for students. Attempts to put this into practice in urban schools in the United States have met with varying degrees of success. Using case studies, the contributors to this book examine the reasons for this inconsistency, focusing on the structural, social and human relations conditions of schooling.School-based professional community is a concept that portrays teachers as working together towards a set of shared goals of improved professionalism for themselves and increased learning opportunities for students. Attempts to put this into practice in urban schools in the United States have met with varying degrees of success. Using case studies, the contributors to this book examine the reasons for this inconsistency, focusing on the structural, social and human relations conditions of schooling.PART ONE: PROBLEMS AND CONCEPTS
Professionalism and Community - Karen Seashore Louis, Sharon D Kruse and Anthony S Bryk
What Is It and Why Is It Important in Urban Schools?
An Emerging Framework for Analyzing School-Based Professional Community - Sharon D Kruse, Karen Seashore Louis and Anthony S Bryk
PART TWO: CASES FROM URBAN SCHOOLS
Professional Community and Its Yield at Metro Academy - Mary Anne Raywid
Thomas Paine High School - Jean A King and Daniel A Weiss
Professional Community in an Unlikely Setting
Catalyzing Professional Community in a School Reform Left Behind - Sharon Rollow and Anthony S Bryk
Changing the Tire on a Moving Bus - M Peg Lonnquist and Jean A King
Barriers to Professional Community at Whitehead School
Dewey Middle School - Daniel A Weiss, Karen Seashore Louis and Jeremy Hopkins
Getting Past the First Stages oflCf