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    By Learning Forward
    Categories: Standards for Professional Learning
    August 2011
    Vol. 32 No. 4

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    Ann Lieberman and Lynne Miller

    Ann Lieberman (annl1@stanford.edu) is a senior scholar at the School Redesign Network at Stanford University. Lynne Miller (lynnem@usm.maine.edu) is professor of educational leadership at the University of Southern Maine. 

    References

    Cochran-Smith, M. & Lytle, S.L. (1993). Inside/outside: Teacher research and knowledge. New York: Teachers College Press.

    Grossman, P., Wineburg, S., & Woolworth, S. (2001, December). Toward a theory of teacher community. Teachers College Record, 103(6), 942-1012.

    Horn, I.S. (2005). Learning on the job: A situated account of teacher learning in high school mathematics departments. Cognition & Instruction, 23(2), 207-236.

    Lieberman, A. & Miller, L. (2008). Teachers in professional communities: Improving teaching and learning. New York: Teachers College Press.

    Little, J.W. & Horn, I.S. (2007). “Normalizing” problems of practice: Converting routine conversation into a resource for learning in professional communities. In Stoll L., & Louis, K.S. (Eds.), Professional learning communities: Divergence, depth, and dilemmas (pp. 29-42). Maidenhead, England: Open University Press.

    McLaughlin, M.W. & Talbert, J.E. (2001). Professional communities and the work of high school teaching. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    McLaughlin, M.W. & Talbert, J.E. (2006). Building school-based teacher learning communities: Professional strategies to improve student achievement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

    Talbert, J. (2010). Professional learning communities at the crossroads: How systems hinder or engender change. In Hargreaves, A., Lieberman, A., Fullan, M., & Hopkins, D. (Eds.), Second international handbook of educational change (pp. 555-571). New York: Springer.

    Lieberman, A. & Wood, D.R. (2002). Inside the National Writing Project: Connecting network learning and classroom teaching. New York: Teachers College Press.


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