AERA Annual Meeting: Sustaining Productive Teacher Collaborations: Infrastructures Across International Contexts

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Sustaining Productive Teacher Collaborations: Infrastructures Across International Contexts

Wed, April 23, 10:50am to 12:20pm MDT (10:50am to 12:20pm MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 704

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Productive teacher collaborations foster renewal for equitable and just education yet relatively little is known about how to sustain them. We identify systemic challenges to sustaining productive collaborations and examine ways of addressing these challenges across settings in Israel, Scotland, and California (USA). We show how adapting, persisting, and spreading productive teacher collaborations depends on infrastructures such as organizing teachers into small teams to plan and study their lessons, peer facilitation of team meetings, and protocols to guide team inquiry. We share four original papers with a focus on teacher learning to enact equitable and just learning opportunities for students from marginalized backgrounds. We compare findings across country contexts to illuminate how disparate systemic conditions shape teacher collaborations over time.

Sub Unit

SIG-Educational Change

Chair

Amanda L. Datnow, University of California - San Diego

Papers

Discussant

Sarah L. Woulfin, University of Texas at Austin