# Acknowledgements

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Readings

Activity 2 Reading: Adeola Folasade Akinyemi, Symphorosa Rembe, Jenny Shumba & Toyin Mary Adewumi | (2019) Collaboration and mutual support as processes established by communities of practice to improve continuing professional teachers’ development in high schools, Cogent Education, 6:1, 1685446, DOI: 10.1080/2331186X.2019.1685446 https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2019.1685446

Activity 3 Reading: Alma Harris and Michelle Jones (pp 38/39) in Connecting professional learning: leading effective collaborative enquiry across teaching school alliances. National College for School Leadership https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/335719/Connecting-professional-learning-leading-effective-collaborative-enquiry-across-teaching-school-alliances.pdf © 2012 Alma Harris and Michelle Jones, published by the National College for School Leadership

Activity 3 Text 1: Instructional Rounds 3 September 2015 https://education.gov.scot/media/gijjneew/sacfi12b-instructional-rounds.pdfEducation Scotland 2015 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/https://education.gov.scot/terms-of-use/

Activity 4 Reading: THE CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES OF INCLUDING STUDENTS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: BUILDING AND SUSTAINING CHANGE Katherine Cohen Volin special Issue 1 Journal of Ethical Education Leadership 2018 https://jecel.scholasticahq.com/article/37375.pdf https://jecel.scholasticahq.com/about

Activity 5 Reading: Lofthouse R, Thomas U. Concerning collaboration; teachers’ perspectives on working in partnerships to develop teaching practices. Professional Development in Education 2015. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Professional Development in Education on 28-07-2016 http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/19415257.2015.1053570 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Deed |

Activity 6 Reading: Swaffield, S. and Major, L., 2019. Inclusive educational leadership to establish a co-operative school cluster trust? Exploring perspectives and making links with leadership for learning. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 23(11), pp.1149-1163. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/62e30f51-65bb-4390-be19-2d00a9c0194d

Activity 7 Reading: Wouter Schenke, Jan H. van Driel, Femke P. Geijsel & Monique L.L. Volman (2017) Closing the feedback loop: a productive interplay between practice-based research and school development through cross-professional collaboration in secondary education, Professional Development in Education, 43:5, 860-880, DOI: 10.1080/19415257.2016.1258654

Activity 8 Reading: Keranen, N., & Encinas Prudencio, F. (2014). Teacher collaboration praxis: Conflicts, borders, and ideologies from a micropolitical perspective. PROFILE Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development, 16(2), 37-47. http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/profile.v16n2.39994

Figures

Figure 2: being a part? courtesy Jonathan Rix

Figure 4: Connect to learn method page 13 in https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/335719/Connecting-professional-learning-leading-effective-collaborative-enquiry-across-teaching-school-alliances.pdf

Figure 6: Does it matter? courtesy: Jonathan Rix

Figures 8/9: Obstacles in pyramid of in Charalampous, C.A. and Papademetriou, C.D., 2021. Intermediate inverted leadership: The inclusive leader’s model. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 24(3), pp.349-370. DOI: 10.1080/13603124.2019.1623925

Figure 10: Process of teacher collaboration for implementation of change. (Nguyen & Ng, 2020) adapted from Nguyen & Ng, 2020 Teacher collaboration for change: Sharing, improving, and spreading. Professional Development in Education, 46(4), pp.638-651.

Figure 11: You ignored the Elephant in the Room, so I traded him in: Cartoonist: Bannerman/Xunise/Konar/Lawton/Patrinos/Piro Cartoonstock.com

Videos

Activity 3 Video 2: Learning walks: what are they? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2jY6D0VcEsCourtesy: opogo.com

Activity 3 Video 3: Learning walks: structured observation for teachers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUTIIOfma90Edutopia https://www.edutopia.org/

Activity 3 Video 4: Lesson study: a powerful approach to improve teaching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMiRIRro86Ecourtesy: Lesson Study Alliance https://www.lsalliance.org/

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