This article describes roles and responsibilities to be taken by groups within a school district in order to promote teacher collaboration as part of the work life of a school. Included is a checklist for use by individuals responsible for staff development in schools, with suggestions for initiating teacher collaboration. (Author/MT)

As a university professor who has taught at the teacher education, masters, and doctoral levels, the life of teaching has been an enduring interest, particularly teaching that occurs in K-12 settings. From the author's own work as a K-12 teacher and administrator to her earliest studies of effective teaching and in her own university teaching, she…