Teacher Professional Partnerships
Teacher professional partnerships are more than an innovative idea. Across the United States teachers have created TPPs to organize their worklife—and schools they serve—in new and different ways. Boards of chartered, private, and independent schools as well as school district boards have delegated the TPPs the authority to manage, or arrange for the management of, one or more schools. The arrangements are dealing usefully with some of the problems in public education.
Your exploration of existing TPPs, including the services they provide and the schools they produce, begins here:
Directory in PDF Form
Click here for E|E's 2006 national TPP inventory, which describes organizational structures in great detail.
Two TPP Models
There are two primary models of teacher professional practices. The original model, operating in Minnesota, and the union-compatible variation in Milwaukee. Click here to read about fundamental differences between the models.