Description:

Read what research tells us about the importance of purposeful communities, where each individual is clear about their community’s goals and purposes to move toward success.

Key Ideas:

“Principal autonomy: How much is too much?” by Jim Eck with Bryan Goodwin, outlines district practices that define autonomy for schools within the context of a purposeful community.

In “Purposeful community in practice,” Vicki Urquhart writes about how  teachers in a middle school in West Bend, Wisconsin, are working together to improve their students’ writing scores.

“A different kind of community,” by Greg Cameron, Monette McIver, and Roger Goddard, explains the four characteristics that purposeful communities exhibit

APA Citation:

Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning. (2008, Winter.) Changing Schools, 57. Denver, CO: Author.

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