M.Ed. team to present at national meeting

Dr. Roger Peckover, Suzanne Peterson, Pat Christiansen, and Brenda Fischer, members of the Development Team of the Master of Education in Teaching and Learning program (M.Ed.), have had their research accepted for presentation at the 2008 annual national meeting of the America Research Association in New York City.

The paper, titled, “Yes, But How Do We Help Teachers Build Generative Communities of Practice in Their Own Workplace,” reports results of an ongoing programmatic study of teachers “apprenticing” as teacher leaders using principles of social constructivist learning to build transformative communities of practice in their workplace. Implications will be reported for helping teachers engage their workplace communities in ways that scaffold participatory engagement, intellectual confidence, collaborative visioning, classroom inquiry-based praxis, and an inner life grounded in a shared learning and a spirit of mutual care.