Opening Up the Black Box: Literacy Instruction in Schools Participating in Three Comprehensive School Reform Programs

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An Empirical Investigation of Professional Development Effects on Literacy Instruction Using Daily Logs (2007, background): “This is especially true at AC schools, at which their implementation strategy was one SII researchers have labeled “professional control” (for a discussion, see, e.g., Correnti & Rowan, 2007; Rowan, Camburn, & Barnes, 2004).”
The ‘Document-Based Lesson’: Bringing disciplinary inquiry into high school history classrooms with adolescent struggling readers (2012, background): “A recent study comparing comprehensive school reform programmes found that providing daily instructional materials and clear directions for implementation produced the greatest instructional change (Correnti and Rowan 2007; Rowan and Miller 2007).”
Teaching, Rather Than Teachers, As a Path Toward Improving Classroom Instruction (2012, background): “Correnti and Rowan (2007) and Rowan and Miller (2007) conclude that changes in instructional practices—in teaching methods—were largely responsible for the gains in student achievement.”
The influence of video clubs on teachers’ thinking and practice (2010, background): “Teachers may need substantial institutional support to change instruction (Correnti and Rowan 2007; Gamoran et al. 2003), including opportunities to participate in extended professional development and access to human and social resources to facilitate learning”