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Teacher Research for Better Schools
Marian Mohr, Courtney Rogers, Betsy Sanford, and Mary Ann Nocerino
Foreword by Ann Lieberman
Practitioner Inquiry Series
Pub Date: December 2003, 208 pages
Paperback: $22.95, ISBN: 0807744174
Cloth: $46, ISBN: 0807744182
 
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"In these authors’ hands we have, at last, a book that goes beyond teacher research as a professional development tool and shows us how teachers can both produce knowledge as well as consume it. It is this kind of professional knowledge that will both improve the quality of teaching and transform schools. And it is this kind of book that can be used as a primer to help make it happen."
—From the Foreword by Ann Lieberman, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. This book is about a group of experienced K–12 teachers who took teacher research to another level. Their story is not only about teachers working together to improve their own teaching, but also about how their research reverberated throughout their school system and influenced how their schools were run. Grounded in the day-to-day life of classrooms and featuring dialogue from the participants, this unique volume: - Shows how to use teacher research to promote student learning, teacher professionalism, and a school culture centered on student and teacher learning.
- Reports on teacher research projects in an elementary, a middle, and a high school where teachers studied their own classrooms, schools, and school system—to transform schools from the inside-out.
- Ties research findings to implications and practical recommendations for teacher colleagues, school-level administrators, central office administrators, teacher educators, professional developers, parents, and school communities.
- Offers examples of different types of research teachers conduct and explains what it takes to build and sustain a teacher research community.
Marian Mohr and Mary Ann Nocerino are retired from teaching and work with schools and school systems on teacher research, school planning, and program evaluation. Sheila Clawson, Marion MacLean, Courtney Rogers, and Betsy Sanford are teachers in the public schools of Fairfax County, Virginia. |
