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In this video Roxane Mayeur, co-lead teacher at Community High School in Milwaukee, describes the advantages of working in a school run by a teacher cooperative. Community High School is served by a professional practice of teachers operating informally as cooperative.

Roxane describes how she and others decided to form a teacher cooperative because it is easier to get teachers to take responsibility and be accountable for what they do when they are in the decision-making...

The exclusion of teachers from the decision-making process of the learning program and management of schools is at the root of the difficulties of the K-12 system.

Intriguingly, in cases where teachers are responsible for running schools it immediately becomes apparent that teachers will accept accountability if they are allowed to control what matters for learning.

The Milwaukee Public Schools district includes 13 union-affiliated chartered schools where the authority for arranging both the learning program and the administration of a school is placed with a...

Editor’s note: Each Friday we feature guest bloggers that are involved in rethinking what is possible with schooling and the education system.

The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers has led in the development of a new law that allows districts to form independent, autonomous schools. And they have used the law to create a teacher-run school.

Lynn Nordgren, President of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, is a guest contributor this week to Education Innovating.

It...

Join social media journalist and educational entrepreneur Steve Hargadon tonight, 8pm EST for a live and interactive with Ted Kolderie on education reform and teachers as partners in school organization.

Access the interview page here.

If you’ve been following Education Innovating, perhaps you’ve been generating questions...