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Chapter 14: Immersing Teachers in Practice

NWP -- Organization attempting to get teachers to write & be writers in their disciplines

Our objective: "Building the capacity of a school or a teacher to support student achievement takes a commitment of time and, for some, a leap of faith. Linda Darling-Hammond speaks to the need for the leap when she urges policy makers to shift from "designing controls intended to direct the system, to developing capacity that enables schools and teachers to be responsible for student learning and responsive to diverse and changing student and community needs" (Darling-Hammond, 1998, p. 643)"

STEPS:
 * 1) Design opportunities for teachers to be learnerse in the disciplines they teach.
 * 2) Structure the extended learning opportunity.
 * 3) Pay attention to the learning environment.
 * 4) Go public as a practitioner.