Teacher teams and distributed leadership: A study of group discourse and collaboration

Educational Administration Quarterly

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-100

  Scribner, Jay Paredes ^a   Sawyer, R Keith ^b   Watson, Sheldon T ^c   Myers, Vicki L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Distributed leadership; School improvement; Teacher teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846550512     PISSN: 0013161X     EISSN: 15523519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013161X06293631     Document Type: Article

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