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The Collective Mediation of a High-Stakes Accountability Program: Communities and Networks of Practice
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Cobb, Paul; McClain, Kay – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2006
This article describes an analytic approach for situating teachers' instructional practices within the institutional settings of the schools and school districts in which they work. The approach treats instructional leadership and teaching as distributed activities and involves first delineating the communities of practice within a school or…
Descriptors: School Districts, Middle School Teachers, Accountability, Instructional Leadership