Restructuring Schools for Collaboration: Promises and Pitfalls

This book provides a more comprehensive discussion of collaborative school efforts than any other single source currently available. Specifically, multiple disciplinary perspectives are presented, addressing the complexity, or "promises and pitfalls, " of school collaboration efforts. The book is organized in terms of major considerations in school collaboration initiatives - the organizational structure; the change process; interagency and intraschool collaborative efforts; and implications for instruction, leadership, and leadership preparation. Also, the book informs the design of educator preparation programs emphasizing collaborative schools and crossdisciplinary teaching.