Professionalism and Community
Perspectives on Reforming Urban Schools

March 1995 | 272 pages | Corwin

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.

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PART ONE: PROBLEMS AND CONCEPTS

Karen Seashore Louis, Sharon D Kruse and Anthony S Bryk

Professionalism and Community

What Is It and Why Is It Important in Urban Schools?

Sharon D Kruse, Karen Seashore Louis and Anthony S Bryk

An Emerging Framework for Analyzing School-Based Professional Community

PART TWO: CASES FROM URBAN SCHOOLS

Mary Anne Raywid

Professional Community and Its Yield at Metro Academy

Jean A King and Daniel A Weiss

Thomas Paine High School

Professional Community in an Unlikely Setting

Sharon Rollow and Anthony S Bryk

Catalyzing Professional Community in a School Reform Left Behind

M Peg Lonnquist and Jean A King

Changing the Tire on a Moving Bus

Barriers to Professional Community at Whitehead School

Daniel A Weiss, Karen Seashore Louis and Jeremy Hopkins

Dewey Middle School

Getting Past the First Stages of Restructuring

PART THREE: REFLECTIONS ON PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY IN URBAN SCHOOLS

Sharon D Kruse and Karen Seashore Louis

Developing Professional Community in New and Restructuring Urban Schools

Karen Seashore Louis and Sharon D Kruse

Getting There

Promoting Professional Community in Urban Schools

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