Resource Annex

Books

Collaboration: What Makes It Work: A Review of Research Literature on Factors Influencing Successful Collaboration (2nd ed.), by Paul W. Mattessich, Marta Murray-Close, & Barbara R. Monsey (St. Paul, MN: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 2001).

Powerful Designs for Professional Learning, edited by Louis Brown Easton (Oxford, OH: National Staff Development Council, 2004)

Articles

“Case Studies in Co-Teaching in the Content Areas: Successes, Failures, and Challenges,” by Margo A. Mastropieri, Thomas E. Scruggs, & Janet Graetz (Intervention in School and Clinic, May 2005: Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 260-270).

“The Changing Face of Education: Teachers Cope With Challenges Through Collaboration and Reflective Study,” by Carla C. Dearman & Sheila R. Alber (Reading Teacher, April 2005: Vol. 58, No. 7, pp. 634-640).

“Collaboration Helps Teachers Learn to Differentiate Instruction,” by Francis M. Duffy (Journal of Staff Development, Winter 2005: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 68-69).

“Common Space, Common Time, Common Work,” by Melody J. Shank (Educational Leadership, May 2005: Vol. 62, No. 8, pp. 16-19).

“Conflict Amid Community: The Micropolitics of Teacher Collaboration,” by Betty Achinstein (Teachers College Record, April 2002: Vol. 104, No. 3, pp. 421-455).

“Connecting Science and Mathematics Instruction: Pedagogical Context Knowledge for Teachers,” by Jeffrey Frykholm & George Glasson (School Science and Mathematics, March 2005: Vol. 105, No. 3, pp. 127-141).

“Fusing Lesson Study and Authentic Achievement: A Model for Teacher Collaboration,” by Roger A. Stewart & Jonathan L. Brendefur (Phi Delta Kappan, May 2005: Vol. 86, No. 9, pp. 681-687).

“A Guide to Coteaching,” by Patricia Jordan Rea & Judith Connell (Principal Leadership (High school ed.), May 2005: Vol. 5, No. 9, pp. 36-41).

“Inside Teacher Community: Representations of Classroom Practice”, by Judith Warren Little (Teachers College Record, August 2003: Vol. 105, No. 6, pp. 913-945).

“Learning Through Interactive Talk: A School-Based Mentor Teacher Study Group as a Context for Professional Learning,” by David Carroll (Teaching and Teacher Education, July 2005: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 457-473).

“Small Learning Communities That Actually Learn: Lessons for School Leaders,” by Jonathan A. Supovitz & Jolley Bruce Christman (Phi Delta Kappan, May 2005: Vol. 86, No. 9, pp. 649-651).

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