Teaching, the core technology of schooling, is an essential consideration in investigations of education systems and school organizations. Taking teaching seriously as an explanatory variable in research on education systems and organizations necessitates moving beyond treating it as a unitary practice, so as to take account of the school subjects…

This study examines the work of US school principals from the perspective of their workday using a distributed perspective to frame the investigation. Using data on 38 school principals in one mid-sized urban school district in the US, it describes school principals' work practices, examining both the "focus" of that work and "how" it is…

Examines the role of elementary teachers' identities as teachers and as learners on their teaching and learning practices. Uses teachers' literacy and mathematics stories as representations of their identities. Finds a common literacy identity across the 10 teachers in the study, but only three identities in mathematics within the group. (CMK)

Examines teachers' efforts to reconstruct their practice in the context of national, state, and local instructional reforms. Argues that a teacher's zone of enactment (the space where teachers encounter reform initiatives) plays a crucial role in the implementation of instructional reform. Proposes a model to account for teachers' responses to…