Cultivating innovation: How a charter/district network is turning professional development into professional practice

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 507-512

  Andrews, Kevin ^a   Rothman, Michael ^b  

^a Neighborhood House Charter School   (United States)

^b NONE

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1. These comments come from a focus group of principals and teachers who participated in the Project for School Innovation in June 2001. Throughout this article when we attribute other quoted material to PSI participants, it was also collected in interviews and focus groups in late spring 2001.
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15. E-mail correspondence from Mary Street, May 2001.
16. Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 603, section 1.
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