Examining the practice of beginning teachers’ micropolitical literacy within professional inquiry communities

Marnie Curry; Kim Jaxon; Jennifer Lin Russell; Mary Alice Callahan; Jeanette Bicais

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 24, No. 3 (April 2008) pp. 660–673

This paper investigates beginning teachers collaboratively making sense of and responding to the micropolitical environments of their schools. Drawing on a qualitative multi-case study conducted within the context of a university-sponsored, inquiry...

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More than a Network: Building Professional Communities for Educational Improvement

Jonathan R. Dolle; Louis M. Gomez; Jennifer Lin Russell; Anthony S. Bryk

Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education Vol. 112, No. 2 (2013) pp. 443–463

This chapter is a case study of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's Pathways [TM] program. The goal of the Statway [Registered Trademark] and Quantway [Registered Trademark] pathways is to improve the success rate of...