Why teacher networks (can) work

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 605-610

  Niesz, Tricia ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34247228554     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170708800812     Document Type: Review

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1. Networks have become so popular that they have been used as strategies to implement and support particular school or district reforms, but these are of less interest to me. Distinguishing between policy-implementation networks and professional development networks is important because the power of professional development networks lies in their voluntary nature; teachers turn to them because they address particular professional or personal inreresrs.
2. Ann Lieberman and Diane R. Wood, Inside the National Writing Project: Connecting Network Learning and Classroom Teaching (New York: Teachers College Press, 2003);
3. and Joseph P. McDonald and Emily J. Klein, "Networking for Effective Learning: Toward a Theory of Effective Design," Teachers College Record, vol. 105, 2003, pp. 1606-21.
4. Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991);
5. and Etienne Wenger, Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
6. Wenger, p. 1.
7. Ibid., p. 5.
8. Ann Lieberman and Milbrey W. McLaughlin, "Networks for Educational Change: Powerful and Problematic," Phi Delta Kappan, May 1992, p. 674.
9. Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Susan Lytle, Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge (New York: Teachers College Press, 1992).
10. Ann Lieberman and Diane Wood, "When Teachers Write: Of Networks and Learning," in Ann Lieberman and Lynn Miller, eds., Teachers Caught in the Action: Professional Development That Matters (New York: Teachers College Press, 2001), p. 184.
11. Lieberman and McLaughlin, p. 674.
12. Ann Lieberman and Maureen Grolnick, "Networks and Reform in American Education," Teachers College Record, vol. 1, 1996, p. 41.
13. Lieberman and McLaughlin, p. 674.
14. Lieberman and Grolnick, pp. 36-37.
15. McDonald and Klein, op. cit.