Collaborative Professionalism

Andy Hargreaves is a research professor at Boston College and a visiting professor at the University of Ottawa. He is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Education. He is past president of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, adviser in education to the first minister of Scotland, and former adviser to the premier of Ontario. Andy is cofounder and president of the ARC Education Project: a group of nations committed to humanistic goals in education. Andy’s more than 30 books have attracted 8 Outstanding Writing Awards. He has been honored for services to public education and educational research in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Andy is ranked by Education Week among the top 20 scholars with most influence on U.S. education policy debate. In 2015, Boston College gave him its Excellence in Teaching With Technology Award. Andy’s most recent book is Leadership From the Middle: The Beating Heart of Educational Transformation. The Age of Identity is the fifth book that Dennis and Andy have written together. Michael T. O’Connor is the director of the Providence Alliance for Catholic Teachers (PACT) program at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. In this role, Michael teaches Master’s level courses, provides supervision and instructional coaching to the program’s teachers, and offers support to the program’s partner Catholic schools in the New England region. A former middle school English Language Arts (ELA) teacher and instructional coach, Michael received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus in literacy from the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. While working on his doctorate, he worked with Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley on the Northwest Rural Innovation and Student Engagement (NW RISE) network project, which included supporting the work of the ELA group. His dissertation explored secondary students’ language choices in authentic, community-based writing activities and the ways in which teachers collaborated to support student writing across rural contexts.

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