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"We will fail as a profession if we do not begin working together... Collaboration encourages learning through many and varied paths, and learning encourages growth and understanding."
-A teacher in a Lucent Peer Collaboration pilot district
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The Lucent Peer Collaboration Initiative was conceived in 1999 with the lofty goal of transforming the culture of participating schools by establishing systematic use of an array of strategies for analysis and improvement of educational practice through peer critique and support. Funded by the Lucent Technologies Foundation, the centerpiece of the project has been the creation of "Lucent Learning Communities" (LLCs) in each of about 20 schools in four districts: Albuquerque, NM; Seattle, WA; Lancaster, PA and Broward County, FL. The LLCs are intended to be small volunteer groups of professionals who meet regularly to reflect on their own educational practices as well as the learning of their students. The initiative was co-constructed by members of the National School Reform Faculty (NSRF) and staff of The Philanthropic Initiative (TPI). TPI has provided oversight of the project, and NSRF has trained LLC coaches and provided "external coaches" to support the work in each site. Documentation of the work as it has unfolded in the districts has been conducted by a team of researchers based first at Teachers College and presently at the University of Southern Maine.
Funding for the districts has ended. Two symposia about this project have been presented at the 2003 and 2004 annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The documentation team is currently working on plans for a book about the Lucent Peer Collaboration Project.
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