Professionalism and Community: Perspectives on Reforming Urban Schools

Abstract

PART ONE: PROBLEMS AND CONCEPTS Professionalism and Community - Karen Seashore Louis, Sharon D Kruse and Anthony S Bryk What Is It and Why Is It Important in Urban Schools? An Emerging Framework for Analyzing School-Based Professional Community - Sharon D Kruse, Karen Seashore Louis and Anthony S Bryk PART TWO: CASES FROM URBAN SCHOOLS Professional Community and Its Yield at Metro Academy - Mary Anne Raywid Thomas Paine High School - Jean A King and Daniel A Weiss Professional Community in an Unlikely Setting Catalyzing Professional Community in a School Reform Left Behind - Sharon Rollow and Anthony S Bryk Changing the Tire on a Moving Bus - M Peg Lonnquist and Jean A King Barriers to Professional Community at Whitehead School Dewey Middle School - Daniel A Weiss, Karen Seashore Louis and Jeremy Hopkins Getting Past the First Stages of Restructuring PART THREE: REFLECTIONS ON PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY IN URBAN SCHOOLS Developing Professional Community in New and Restructuring Urban Schools - Sharon D Kruse and Karen Seashore Louis Getting There - Karen Seashore Louis and Sharon D Kruse Promoting Professional Community in Urban Schools