Professional community and professional development in the learning-centered school

Teacher Learning That Matters: International Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 22-43

  Little, Judith Warren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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