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Teachers As Owners
A Key to Revitalizing Public Education
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2002
Summary
What if teachers were owners, not employees?' Teacher-ownership is a revolutionary way to put excitement and meaning back into the teaching profession and to revitalize public education. This book demonstrates how being an owner rather than an employee can give teachers control of their professional activity, including full responsibility and accountability for creating and sustaining high performing learning communities. It presents examples of teacher-ownership in practice and provides practical models for those who would like to experience the professional satisfaction found in ownership. Like doctors, lawyers, and other professionals, teachers have the same opportunity to work for themselves through ownership of professional partnerships. In a professional partnership, the teachers are the leaders and decision-makers. They control their own work and their own relationships to students, including determining curriculum, setting the budget, choosing the level of technology available to students, determining their own salaries, selecting their colleagues, monitoring performance and hiring administrators to work for them, not vice versa.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2002
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-4371-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-5440-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
145
Product type
Edited Book
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CONTENTS No access
Foreword No access
Preface No access
1 What Is a Teacher Professional Partnership? No access Pages 1 - 6
2 Who Are the Potential Clients of Teacher Professional Partnerships? No access Pages 7 - 14
3 What Are the Key Ingredients of Success? No access Pages 15 - 28
4 What Are the Options for the Design and Operation of a Teacher Professional Partnership? No access Pages 29 - 50
5 What Are the Implications? No access Pages 51 - 82
6 EdVisions Cooperative: An Example of a Teacher Professional Partnership No access Pages 83 - 96
7 Changing the National Discussion No access Pages 97 - 102
Appendix A Comparison of Legal Structures for Doing Business as a Teacher Professional Organization No access Pages 103 - 110
Appendix B Options for Private Retirement Plans for Teacher Professional Partnerships No access Pages 111 - 114
Appendix C Outline of a Business Plan for a Teacher Professional Partnership No access Pages 115 - 118
Appendix D Emerging Model: I.D.E.A.L.Charter School Cooperative No access Pages 119 - 122
Appendix E National Meeting on Teacher Professional Partnerships No access Pages 123 - 126
Appendix F Technical Assistance: Where to Begin No access Pages 127 - 138
Bibliography No access Pages 139 - 142
About the Editor and Contributors No access Pages 143 - 145
