This annotated bibliography was prepared to serve as background material for the writing of the synthesis paper "From Isolation to Collaboration: Improving the Work Environment of Teaching." Items were selected to represent the range of issues that pertain to the social and organizational context of teaching. The selected materials emphasize conditions over which teachers and administrators have some degree of control. For example, educators may not be able to alter the racial or socioeconomic composition of the student body or the condition of the school's physical plant, but teachers can learn to share their instructional expertise with one another and administrators can choose to solicit teachers' opinions when planning new programs or revising old ones. The bulk of the items were published during the last four years; only a few entries precede 1980. Most items were identified through a search of the ERIC database, but several items were obtained directly from scholars working in this area. (TE)