Creating smarter schools through collaboration

Megan Tschannen‐Moran, Cynthia Uline, Anita Woolfolk Hoy, Timm Mackley
2000 Journal of Educational Administration  
Principles of cognitive psychology are considered, not primarily as they inform classroom practice, but as they inform school organization and administrative practice in schools. Theories of knowledge as distributed, social, situated, and based on prior beliefs and knowledge are applied to organizational learning within schools. Collaborative problem solving is explored as a means that schools might employ to become smarter. The study is situated within a Midwestern high school that is striving
more » ... to improve itself. This school employs collaborative strategies to learn and adapt to changed expectations and circumstances. In the school examined, this collaboration is orchestrated through the creation of discourse communities among teachers and cognitive apprenticeships among teachers and administrators. The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at
doi:10.1108/09578230010342312 fatcat:dyalfcp6indshbmizyih27ysfi