Freedom at Work: Language, Professional, and

This book explores the freedom to use the language resources we have at our disposal to learn to our fullest, to engage in inquiry about learning and teaching, and to go beyond the surface in topics of schooling and education. Within a particular school context, the author explores how these freedoms came into being, how they took shape, and what they meant for the individuals involved. She shows that the individual and social freedoms in which the teacher and the learner operate within schools are important measures and outcomes of intellectual development. In connecting language, culture, learning, and intellectual development as freedoms in her own life, the author explores a new way of seeing the role of multiple languages in education and the freedom to learn.

Enmarcando/An Introduction	p. 1
From Gray to Color: The Why of the Study	p. 5
My Questions, My Methods	p. 12
Activities	p. 14
Endnotes	p. 15
Language Development as Freedom
Language and Culture from the Periphery to the Center	p. 19
PS 165 Community	p. 21
Latinos	p. 23
Test Scores and Transformation	p. 27
Parameters for Dual-Language Education	p. 32
Reflection on Unfreedoms	p. 36
Activities	p. 36
Endnotes	p. 37
Negotiating Language	p. 40
Negotiating Spaces	p. 41
Language Allocation	p. 46
Reflection on Definitions of Freedom	p. 50
Activities	p. 52
Endnotes	p. 53
Professional Development as Freedom
The Professional Development Plan	p. 57
Encouraging Autonomy and Risk Taking	p. 59
Portfolios	p. 59
Curriculum Conversations	p. 62
Collaborative Leadership and Governance	p. 64
Activities	p. 67
Endnotes	p. 67
The Many Benefits of Group Study	p. 69
Classroom Ethnography Study Group	p. 70
The Reading Group	p. 72
Teacher Inquiry/Study Group	p. 73
Dual-Language Study Group	p. 74
Schedules, Time, and Accountability	p. 78
Activities	p. 81
Endnotes	p. 81
The Synergy of Collaboration:
Teachers and Researchers Together	p. 83
The Professional Development School	p. 84
The First Bilingual Internships	p. 86
Intervisitations	p. 87
PDS Teaching Seminar	p. 89
PDS Inquiry Group	p. 90
The Greater Council	p. 91
The Holmes Partnership Annual Conference	p. 92
Disturbing the Bilingual Teacher Education Program	p. 92
Other Ways of Breaking Isolation and Creating Community	p. 94
Reflection on Freedom: The Individual and the Collective	p. 96
Activities	p. 99
Endnotes	p. 99
Teaching as Social Practice	p. 101
On Culture and Curriculum	p. 102
Negotiating Academic Language Through Culture	p. 107
Teaching Academic Language in Context	p. 109
Language Choice	p. 111
Learning About Scaffolding	p. 113
Activities	p. 116
Endnotes	p. 116
Intellectual Development as Freedom
Teachers Speak: Their Theories and Educational Goals	p. 121
Empowerment	p. 123
Independence	p. 125
Interdependence	p. 129
Social Justice	p. 131
Reflections on Teachers' Practices and Thinking	p. 134
Activities	p. 135
Endnotes	p. 136
Other Theories of Development as Freedom	p. 137
Definitions of Freedom	p. 138
The Individual and Society	p. 139
Agency	p. 140
Freedom as Product and Process	p. 141
How the Social Freedoms Came Together	p. 141
Language Development as Freedom	p. 142
Intellectual Development as Freedom	p. 147
Professional Development as Freedom	p. 149
Activities	p. 151
Endnotes	p. 151
One Principal's Perspective	p. 154
Endnote	p. 161
My Perspective	p. 162
Activities	p. 177
Endnotes	p. 177
Conclusions: Openings for Future Freedoms	p. 180
Endnotes	p. 183
Index	p. 184
About the Author	p. 190
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