Teacher Unions & Whole
District Reform
Teacher Unions
and Education Reform
TURN
-- Teacher Union Reform Network
Teacher Union Reform Network
is a union-led effort to restructure the nation's teachers unions
to promote reforms that will ultimately lead to better learning
and higher achievement for all students. The primary goal of TURN
is to create new union models that can take the lead in building
and sustaining effective schools for all students.
Principled
Negotiations
Thoughtbridge
Formerly Conflict Management Inc. (CMI), Thoughbridge has served
as advisors, trainers, and facilitators on negotiation, conflict
management, and leadership development for hundreds of organizations
and individuals.
How
Principled Negotiations Works
How did traditional adversaries cooperate to develop a reform-oriented
context in Boston? What forces influenced them? What role was played
by a new form of bargaining, known as "principled negotiations"?
Excerpt from
"The Making of a Contract for Education Reform",
By Edward J. Doherty and Laval S. Wilson.
A
New Negotiation Process For 21st Century Schools: Three Models For
Implementing Change
By Irma Tyler-Wood, C. Mark Smith, and Charles Barker
Collective
Bargaining In Education: Getting Started In Interest Based Negotiation
By Grande Lum
Articles
"Smarter
Charters? Creating Boston's Pilot Schools", chapter in
the book "Creating New Schools: How Small Schools Are Changing
American Education", Teachers College Press, Fall 1999
"The
Making of a Contract for Education Reform" (PDF), by Edward
J. Doherty and Laval S. Wilson, Phi Delta Kappan, pgs.
791-796, June 1990
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