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A Tale of Two Policies: The Role of a Teacher-Based Team in School Reform

Ressa, Virginia A.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5615-4207
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1503304860765587

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2017, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, EDU Policy and Leadership.
In the school policy reform discourse and literature, “teacher teams” at the local school and building level have become a promising venue for implementing policy innovations and bringing them closer to the settings and practices they hope to reform. This study examined the implementation of two policies, one federal policy, Race to the Top (RttT), and one state policy, Midwestern State Improvement Process (pseudonym; MWIP), within a single teacher team. Both policies emphasized teacher collaboration and improved instruction, and converged on teachers at Cardinal High School at the same time. Utilizing naturalistic inquiry and ethnographic field work, the study documented the work of a teacher-based team working to make sense of and enact the requirements and expectations of mandated policies from within the practical and professional contingencies of their daily work. This intersection is the focus of the study and its findings. These implementations of policy encounter in this teacher team a world whose contingencies may be no less compelling than those of the proposed reforms. The study revealed social, organizational, and professional values in play at the teacher team level that policymakers may not have anticipated, as in how teachers rely on existing systems and professional relationships to make sense of their new implementation tasks at the teacher-team level.
Douglas Macbeth (Advisor)
Allen Ann (Committee Member)
Gimbert Belinda (Committee Member)
222 p.
Education Policy; Educational Leadership
teacher-based team; federal education policy; state education policy; case study; policy implementation; education reform; teacher teams; improvement processes

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  • Ressa, V. A. (2017). A Tale of Two Policies: The Role of a Teacher-Based Team in School Reform [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1503304860765587

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ressa, Virginia. A Tale of Two Policies: The Role of a Teacher-Based Team in School Reform. 2017. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1503304860765587.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ressa, Virginia. "A Tale of Two Policies: The Role of a Teacher-Based Team in School Reform." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1503304860765587

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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