Creating professional learning communities: The work of professional development schools

Theory into Practice

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 303-310

  Doolittle, Gini ^a   Sudeck, Maria ^a   Rattigan, Peter ^a  

^a ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 53349097244     PISSN: 00405841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00405840802329276     Document Type: Article

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