Collaborative Professionalism

When Teaching Together Means Learning for All
Andy Hargreaves
Michael T. O'Connor
Corwin Impact Leadership Series
Collaborative Professionalism
May 2018 | 176 pages | Corwin
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Ensure Conversations About Collaboration Get Results.   

Ask any educational professional about collaboration and chances are they’ll tell you it’s one of their core values. But this familiar sentiment doesn’t always translate into meaningful professional experiences that help educators or their students grow. 

Addressing this critical gap head-on, this book lays out the theory and practice of Collaborative Professionalism. Through five international case studies, the authors distinguish Collaborative Professionalism from professional collaboration by highlighting intentional collaborative designs and providing concrete examples for how to be more purposeful with collaboration.  

Additionally, the book makes Collaborative Professionalism accessible to all educators through clear take-aways including:

  • Ten core tenets, including Collective Efficacy, Collaborative Inquiry, and Collaborating With Students.
  • Graphics indicating how educators can move from mere professional collaboration to the deep and transformative work of Collaborative Professionalism.
  • Analysis of which collaborative practices educators should start doing, keep doing, and stop doing 

Collaboration can be one of your most powerful educational tools when used correctly, and turned into action. This book shows you how.

Contents

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

Part I: Developing and Designing Collaborative Professionalism

  • 1. The Case for Collaborative Professionalism
  • From Professional Collaboration to Collaborative Professionalism
  • Designing Collaborative Professionalism
  • The Culture and Context of Collaborative Professionalism
  • Moving Toward Collaborative Professionalism
  • Making It Happen
  • 2. Moving Toward Collaborative Professionalism
  • Developing Collaborative Professionalism
  • Designing Collaboration
  • 3. Open Class and Lesson Study
  • Open Class Teaching
  • Open Class Feedback
  • Open Class Planning
  • Lesson Study
  • The Four Bs of Collaborative Professionalism
  • Summary
  • 4. Collaborative Curriculum Planning Networks
  • Collaboration in Rural Environments
  • Job-Alike Collaboration
  • Focus on Engagement
  • The ELA Job-Alike Group
  • Network Design
  • Network Principles
  • Network Technology
  • Summary
  • 5. Cooperative Learning and Working
  • Consistency of Cooperation
  • Context of Cooperation
  • Summary
  • 6. Collaborative Pedagogical Transformation
  • Vision of Escuela Nueva
  • Learning in Escuela Nueva
  • Teachers in Escuela Nueva
  • Impact
  • Design
  • Summary
  • 7. Professional Learning Communities
  • The First Generation
  • The Second Generation
  • From Second to Third Generation
  • The Provincial System
  • Collaborative Inquiry in Ontario
  • Summary

Part II: Deepening Collaborative Professionalism

  • 8. Ten Tenets of Collaborative Professionalism
  • Collective Autonomy
  • Collective Efficacy
  • Collaborative Inquiry
  • Collective Responsibility
  • Collective Initiative
  • Mutual Dialogue
  • Joint Work
  • Common Meaning and Purpose
  • Collaborating With Students
  • Big Picture Thinking for All
  • Summary
  • 9. The Four Bs of Collaborative Professionalism
  • Before
  • Betwixt
  • Beside
  • Beyond
  • Summary
  • Moving From Professional Collaboration to Collaborative Professionalism

Part III: Doing Collaborative Professionalism

  • 10. Doing Collaborative Professionalism
  • What Should We Stop Doing?
  • What Should We Continue Doing?
  • What Should We Start Doing?
  • Last Words

Index

Index

Description

Ensure Conversations About Collaboration Get Results.   

Ask any educational professional about collaboration and chances are they’ll tell you it’s one of their core values. But this familiar sentiment doesn’t always translate into meaningful professional experiences that help educators or their students grow. 

Addressing this critical gap head-on, this book lays out the theory and practice of Collaborative Professionalism. Through five international case studies, the authors distinguish Collaborative Professionalism from professional collaboration by highlighting intentional collaborative designs and providing concrete examples for how to be more purposeful with collaboration.  

Additionally, the book makes Collaborative Professionalism accessible to all educators through clear take-aways including:

  • Ten core tenets, including Collective Efficacy, Collaborative Inquiry, and Collaborating With Students.
  • Graphics indicating how educators can move from mere professional collaboration to the deep and transformative work of Collaborative Professionalism.
  • Analysis of which collaborative practices educators should start doing, keep doing, and stop doing 

Collaboration can be one of your most powerful educational tools when used correctly, and turned into action. This book shows you how.

Contents

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

Part I: Developing and Designing Collaborative Professionalism

  • 1. The Case for Collaborative Professionalism
  • From Professional Collaboration to Collaborative Professionalism
  • Designing Collaborative Professionalism
  • The Culture and Context of Collaborative Professionalism
  • Moving Toward Collaborative Professionalism
  • Making It Happen
  • 2. Moving Toward Collaborative Professionalism
  • Developing Collaborative Professionalism
  • Designing Collaboration
  • 3. Open Class and Lesson Study
  • Open Class Teaching
  • Open Class Feedback
  • Open Class Planning
  • Lesson Study
  • The Four Bs of Collaborative Professionalism
  • Summary
  • 4. Collaborative Curriculum Planning Networks
  • Collaboration in Rural Environments
  • Job-Alike Collaboration
  • Focus on Engagement
  • The ELA Job-Alike Group
  • Network Design
  • Network Principles
  • Network Technology
  • Summary
  • 5. Cooperative Learning and Working
  • Consistency of Cooperation
  • Context of Cooperation
  • Summary
  • 6. Collaborative Pedagogical Transformation
  • Vision of Escuela Nueva
  • Learning in Escuela Nueva
  • Teachers in Escuela Nueva
  • Impact
  • Design
  • Summary
  • 7. Professional Learning Communities
  • The First Generation
  • The Second Generation
  • From Second to Third Generation
  • The Provincial System
  • Collaborative Inquiry in Ontario
  • Summary

Part II: Deepening Collaborative Professionalism

  • 8. Ten Tenets of Collaborative Professionalism
  • Collective Autonomy
  • Collective Efficacy
  • Collaborative Inquiry
  • Collective Responsibility
  • Collective Initiative
  • Mutual Dialogue
  • Joint Work
  • Common Meaning and Purpose
  • Collaborating With Students
  • Big Picture Thinking for All
  • Summary
  • 9. The Four Bs of Collaborative Professionalism
  • Before
  • Betwixt
  • Beside
  • Beyond
  • Summary
  • Moving From Professional Collaboration to Collaborative Professionalism

Part III: Doing Collaborative Professionalism

  • 10. Doing Collaborative Professionalism
  • What Should We Stop Doing?
  • What Should We Continue Doing?
  • What Should We Start Doing?
  • Last Words

Index

Index

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Collaborative Professionalism

When Teaching Together Means Learning for All

Andy Hargreaves , Michael T. O'Connor
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Ensure Conversations About Collaboration Get Results.   

Ask any educational professional about collaboration and chances are they’ll tell you it’s one of their core values. But this familiar sentiment doesn’t always translate into meaningful professional experiences that help educators or their students grow. 

Addressing this critical gap head-on, this book lays out the theory and practice of Collaborative Professionalism. Through five international case studies, the authors distinguish Collaborative Professionalism from professional collaboration by highlighting intentional collaborative designs and providing concrete examples for how to be more purposeful with collaboration.  

Additionally, the book makes Collaborative Professionalism accessible to all educators through clear take-aways including:

  • Ten core tenets, including Collective Efficacy, Collaborative Inquiry, and Collaborating With Students.
  • Graphics indicating how educators can move from mere professional collaboration to the deep and transformative work of Collaborative Professionalism.
  • Analysis of which collaborative practices educators should start doing, keep doing, and stop doing 

Collaboration can be one of your most powerful educational tools when used correctly, and turned into action. This book shows you how.


Table Of Contents:

  • List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Part I: Developing and Designing Collaborative Professionalism
  • 1. The Case for Collaborative Professionalism
  • From Professional Collaboration to Collaborative Professionalism
  • Designing Collaborative Professionalism
  • The Culture and Context of Collaborative Professionalism
  • Moving Toward Collaborative Professionalism
  • Making It Happen
  • 2. Moving Toward Collaborative Professionalism
  • Developing Collaborative Professionalism
  • Designing Collaboration
  • 3. Open Class and Lesson Study
  • Open Class Teaching
  • Open Class Feedback
  • Open Class Planning
  • Lesson Study
  • The Four Bs of Collaborative Professionalism
  • Summary
  • 4. Collaborative Curriculum Planning Networks
  • Collaboration in Rural Environments
  • Job-Alike Collaboration
  • Focus on Engagement
  • The ELA Job-Alike Group
  • Network Design
  • Network Principles
  • Network Technology
  • Summary
  • 5. Cooperative Learning and Working
  • Consistency of Cooperation
  • Context of Cooperation
  • Summary
  • 6. Collaborative Pedagogical Transformation
  • Vision of Escuela Nueva
  • Learning in Escuela Nueva
  • Teachers in Escuela Nueva
  • Impact
  • Design
  • Summary
  • 7. Professional Learning Communities
  • The First Generation
  • The Second Generation
  • From Second to Third Generation
  • The Provincial System
  • Collaborative Inquiry in Ontario
  • Summary
  • Part II: Deepening Collaborative Professionalism
  • 8. Ten Tenets of Collaborative Professionalism
  • Collective Autonomy
  • Collective Efficacy
  • Collaborative Inquiry
  • Collective Responsibility
  • Collective Initiative
  • Mutual Dialogue
  • Joint Work
  • Common Meaning and Purpose
  • Collaborating With Students
  • Big Picture Thinking for All
  • Summary
  • 9. The Four Bs of Collaborative Professionalism
  • Before
  • Betwixt
  • Beside
  • Beyond
  • Summary
  • Moving From Professional Collaboration to Collaborative Professionalism
  • Part III: Doing Collaborative Professionalism
  • 10. Doing Collaborative Professionalism
  • What Should We Stop Doing?
  • What Should We Continue Doing?
  • What Should We Start Doing?
  • Last Words
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

This wonderful book starts with the proposition that our central question is not whether educators can make a significant difference in the well-being and capabilities of the children we serve and the communities in which they live, but whether we are willing to do so. Our work as educators is urgent; every minute matters for our most school-dependent children. This book is a powerful reminder that getting better is something we do together.
Rebecca Holcombe, former Secretary of Education for Vermont, former Secretary of Education for Vermont
In many countries, the preferred political strategy to raise standards in education is relentless competition: between students, teachers, schools and districts. On the whole, it isn't working. There is a better way. One that works: collaboration. Human beings are intensely social creatures and much of what we can and do achieve comes from our capacity for working together. In this illuminating and highly practical book, Andy Hargreaves and Michael T O'Connor show why and how collaboration can and should be the real driver of educational transformation, for our students, teachers, and schools alike. An important and timely work for anyone with a genuine interest in making the changes that matter in schools.
Sir Ken Robinson, Educator and New York Times Best Selling Author of You, Your Child, and School, Author
Collaborative Professionalism makes an impressive contribution to the development of teaching and improving schools by stressing the importance of investing in social capital in and between schools. Building on their rich experiences and vivid case studies from around the world, Andy Hargreaves and Michael O’Connor promote collaborative professionalism as the next big step in the global movement for educational improvement. This brilliantly written book is a must-read for teachers, leaders, policy-makers, and those who wish to become collaborative professionals.
Pasi Sahlberg, Professor, Gonski Institute for Education, UNSW Sydney, Australia, Gonski Institute for Education, UNSW Sydney, Australia
I strongly recommend Collaborative Professionalism to education policy makers, school leaders, and teacher activists. It has helped me reflect on how to strengthen the teaching profession, at a time of unprecedented threat from technology, retention, and narrow accountability. The book combines a readable style, with tangible case studies and clear recommendations on what should be done now to foster a healthy future for the most important of professions – working in alliance, with trusted autonomy, and an agility to deal with a time of unprecedented change.
Lord Jim Knight, former Schools Minister and Chief Education Officer, Times Education Supplement, UK
Hargreaves and O’Connor have written an extraordinary book explaining, deepening, and teaching us how to transform teaching and learning in schools. We learn how people collaborate in five different contexts and cultures across the globe. And we finally understand the important stages of building positive, trusting, thoughtful, and lasting collaborative professionalism with all its significant details.
Ann Lieberman, Senior Scholar at Stanford University, Stanford University

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