What is it about?
Teaching School Alliances are a new form of collaborative, multi-school improvement group. This article uses data collected in the first year of a new alliance's life to examine the leadership challenges of collaborative work towards teachers' professional development.
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Why is it important?
This new structural form has not yet been widely studied empirically, and not at all from the 'bottom-up' perspective of serving classroom teachers. There are significant practical barriers to achieving effective collaboration for teachers' professional development, even though many teachers support the idea in principle.
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This article draws on data collected for my Doctor of Education (EdD) project. I am running a longitudinal, mixed-methods investigation over three years, and will add further articles and reports as each year's data is analysed.
Mr Simon Dowling
University of Cambridge
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This page is a summary of: Professional development and the Teaching Schools experiment in England, Management in Education, December 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0892020615619666.
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