Teachers Learning in Community

Betty Lou Whitford is Professor of Education and Dean of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Southern Maine, and the coeditor (with Ken Jones) of Accountability, Assessment, and Teacher Commitment: Lessons from Kentucky's Reform Efforts, also published by SUNY Press. Diane R. Wood is Associate Professor of Initiatives in Educational Transformation at George Mason's College of Education and Human Development, and the coauthor (with Ann Lieberman) of Inside the National Writing Project: Connecting Network Learning and Classroom Teaching.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionBetty Lou Whitford and Diane R. Wood1. Professional Learning Communities for Collaborative Teacher DevelopmentBetty Lou Whitford and Diane R. Wood2. Creating Learning Communities: The Lucent Peer Collaboration InitiativeBetty Lou Whitford and Debra R. Smith3. Learning Communities: Catalyst for Change or a New Infrastructure for the Status Quo?Diane R. Wood4. Learning Communities in an Era of High-Stakes AccountabilityDiane Yendol-Hoppey5. Context and Collaboration: Growing the Work in New JerseyDebra R. Smith, Dick Corbett, and Bruce L. Wilson6. Deepening the Work: Promise and Perils of Collaborative InquiryDiane R. Wood7. What’s to Not Like about Professional Learning Communities?Ken Jones8. A Look to the FutureDiane R. Wood and Betty Lou WhitfordAbout the AuthorsIndex