college-school cooperation

Examines the potential improvement to schools that strengthened relationships between teachers, parents, and principals could produce, discussing communication, teachers and principals as learners, and how to build a "community of learners.".

The authors--three teachers and a developmental psychologist--examine the social context of the elementary classroom and show how to teach science effectively by building a scientific community similar to a writers' workshop, using such discourse strategies as questioning, modeling, and dialogue journals.