Publications and Presentations Publications "How to Institutionalize the Improvement of Professional Practice." Elementary School Principal, February, 2006. "Merit Pay? Not Then, Not Now, Not Ever." Rennie Center On-Line Journal, February, 2006. "How Merit Pay Squelches Teaching." The Boston Globe, September 22, 2005. "Let's Professionalize Teaching." Principal Magazine, Published by National Association of Elementary School Principals. January-February, 2005 Vol. 84, no. 3. "Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Teachers," Recruiting, Retaining and Supporting Qualified Teachers, Edited by Caroline Chauncey. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2004. "Back to School, But Who's There to Teach?" The Boston Globe, September 2, 2003. "The 'Trilemma' Dysfunction: On Knowing What Ails Elementary Schools - and Finding Out How to Cure It." Education Week, May 14, 2003. "We're Still Leaving Teachers Behind." Teachers Net--The Teacher.Net Gazette 2003 http://teachers.net/gazette/APR03/troenboles.html "Who's Teaching Your Children? Why the Teacher Crisis Is Worse Than You Think and What Can Be Done About It." Yale University Press, 2003. "America's New Teachers: How Good, and for How Long?" Education Week, February 2, 2000. "To Upgrade Schools, Upgrade Teachers," The Boston Globe, March 5, 1998. "An Examination of Teacher Leadership in a Professional Development School." Building Professional Development Schools: Politics, Practice and Policy, ed. by Marsha Levine and Roberta Trachtman; Teachers College Press, New York, N.Y., 1997. "Teachers as Leaders and the Problems of Power: Achieving School Reform from the Classroom." New Directions for School Leadership: Every Teacher a Leader, ed. by Marilyn Katzenmeyer and Gayle Moller; Jossey-Bass, Inc., San Francisco, California, 1996. "Leadership from the Classroom: Women Teachers as a Key to School Reform." Women Leading in Education, Edited by Diane M. Dunlap and Patricia A. Schmuck, SUNY Press, NY, 1995. "Two Teachers Examine the Power of Teacher Leadership." Teachers as Leaders - Perspectives on the Professional Development of Teachers, Edited by Donovan R. Walling, Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, Indiana, 1994. "On The Road to Teacher Leadership." A Concept Paper for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, Prepared for the NBPTS, October 1994. "Teacher Empowerment and School Restructuring: Leadership for the Classroom." Women's Leadership in Education: An Agenda for a New Century, Patricia Schmuck and Diane Dunlap (eds.) SUNY Press, 1994. "Teacher Leadership: How to Make it More Than a Catch Phrase." Education Week, November, 1993. "How Teachers Make Restructuring Happen," Educational Leadership, February 1992. "School Restructuring by Teachers: A Case Study in Teacher Empowerment." National Center for Educational Leadership, Harvard University, September, 1990. "Mentoring - A Step Toward Teacher Professionalization," Reflections, The Brookline Educational Journal, Spring 1989. "The Teaching Project: A Model for Teacher Empowerment," Language Arts, November 1988. "Beat Burnout - How to Rejuvenate Yourself," May/June 1995; "Is There A Glass Ceiling in Your Classroom?" March/April 1995; "Start with the Writer's Workshop," January/February 1995; "What Every Teacher Should Know About Mainstreaming & Inclusion," Nov/Dec 1994; "Teacher, Empower Thyself - Teachers as Change-Agents in an Era of Education Reform," Sept/Oct 1994; "Teachers Leave No Legacy," Jan/Feb 1993; "From Chaos to Culture - First Day Tips for New and Experienced Teachers," Sept/Oct 1993; "Mentoring - A Step Toward Teacher Professionalization," Nov/Dec 1993; "Happy Endings," May/Jun 1992; "Partnership Teaching," Jan/Feb 1992; "Memorial Day - A Holiday That Isn't a Celebration," Apr/May 1988; "Democratic Classroom," Mar/Apr 1988; "Meet The Presidents," Jan/Feb 1988; "End of the Year," Apr/May 1987; "Woman of the Year," Jan/Feb 1987; "Kids Collect," Nov/Dec 1986; articles published in Macmillan Creative Classroom. "A 'Career Options' Plan for Teachers," Education Week, September 24, 1986. "Giving Teachers the Power to Save Public Education: A Proposal to Revitalize the Teaching Profession," Reflections, March, 1986. "Kid-to-Kid Kit," a peer-tutoring curriculum for elementary non-English speaking students, used district-wide in the Brookline Public Schools, developed 1984. Presentations "The Millennium School: A New Model of School Reform." MassInsights Meeting of Superintendents and Massachusetts Teacher Education Professors. March 2005. "Team Teaching in Schools." Avi Chai Foundation, Workshop presented through Harvard Principals Center. March 2005. "Who's Teaching Your Children?" Massachusetts Department of Education Day-long Workshop. December 2004. "Restructuring the Teaching Career." Intermediate Unit 1, Fayette, Greene and Washington Counties, Pennsylvania. December 2004. "Who's Teaching Your Children?" 2nd International Summit for Leadership in Education. Boston College. November 2004. "Rethinking Teaching: Why the Teacher Crisis is Worse Than You Think and What to Do About It." Virginia Association of School Superintendents Annual Meeting, Roanoke, Virginia. May 2004. "Who's Teaching Your Children?" National Advisory Board of the Harvard Urban Superintendents Program, Cambridge, MA. October 2003. "Who's Teaching Your Children? Why the Teacher Crisis is Worse Than You Think and What Can Be Done About It." Askwith Forum, Harvard Graduate School of Education (with introduction by Seymour Sarason). April 2003. "A Review of Seven School/University Action Research Models in the United States." XVth World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia. July 2002. "Teacher Leadership: Reinventing Teaching Through New Leadership Roles for Teachers." New York State School Superintendents' Meeting, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts. July 2002. "Teachers as Mentors: A National Overview." Keynote Address, Conference on Mentoring - Teacher Knowledge Project, School For International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont. November 2001. "Is It a PDS or a Wannabe?" presented at the Conference of Professional Development Schools, Connecticut College. June 1999. "Transformative Professional Development: Teacher Research, Inquiry, and the Culture of Schools," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada. April 1999. "The Learning/Teaching Collaborative, a Professional Development School Model," World Bank Seminar "Best Practices in US Teacher Education." May 1997. "Teacher-Initiated Professional Development in the Learning/Teaching Collaborative - Brookline and Boston, Massachusetts." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois. March 1997 (with Mieko Kamii). Conference Coordinator - "Professional Development School Partnerships: Teacher Education and School Reform." A Conference on Professional Development School/College Partnerships, Sturbridge, Massachusetts. May 1995. "Boundary Spanners in Professional Development Schools." American Educational Research Association conference, San Francisco. April 1995. "Teacher Leadership in Professional Development Schools." American Federation of Teachers, Washington, D.C. July 1994. "The Emerging Role of Teacher Leaders in School Reform." National Education Association, New Orleans. July 1994. "Teacher Leadership in a Professional Development School." Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans. April, 1994. "The Learning/Teaching Collaborative: A College-School Partnership Initiated by Teachers." Presentation at the National Network for Educational Renewal, Seattle, Washington. November 1993. "School Restructuring by Teachers: A Study of the Teaching Project at the Edward Devotion School." Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco. April 1992. "University/Public School Collaboration: Implications for Educating Teachers." Annual Meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators, Las Vegas, Nevada. February 1990. "The Effect of Alternative Roles and College Collaboration on Veteran Teachers." Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Boston, Massachusetts. April 1990. "The Teaching Project: A Study in School-University Collaboration." University of California-Riverside Conference on Restructuring Teacher Education: Professional Development Schools. May 1990. "Children's Experiences in Professional Practice Schools." presented at American Federation of Teachers Quest Conference. July 1989. "New Professional Roles for Teachers." Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, National Conference, Boston, March 1988. And at the Annual Conference of the National Staff Development Council, December 1988. "The Democracy Project." A documentary filmed by the CBC, including the Troen/Boles fourth grade Class Meeting as an example of how a free society imparts democratic values through classroom education; filmed 1986-87 and shown on PBS in 1989. "Alternative Professional Roles for Teachers." Keynote Speaker, Leadership Institute, Fall River Public School. December 1987. "New Professional Roles for Teachers." Brown University/Wheelock College conference on The New Professionalism: A Catalyst for Change, at Wheelock College, Boston. March 1987. "Class Meeting: An Experience in Democratic Decision-Making," and "Partnership Teaching: A New Model for Collegiality." Video teaching tapes developed for use in teacher-training seminars, 1986-87. "Heading Off Obsolescence in the Teaching Game." Annual Conference of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, Chicago. February 1986. "Partnership Teaching: An Effective Tool for Teacher Improvement." National Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. June 1986. "Collegiality as a Component of the Improving School." Harvard Principals' Center Institute. April 1986. "Heading Off Obsolescence in the Teaching Game." Annual Conference of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, Chicago. February 1986. "Teachers as Leaders." Harvard Principals' Center Panel/Discussion: Questions of Leadership for School Principals. February, 1986. "Giving Teachers the Power to Save Public Education." American Educational Research Association Conference: Change in Education - Women as Radicals and Conservatives, Boston, MA. October 1985. "The Kid-To-Kid Kit: A Unique Peer Tutoring Program." Massachusetts Association of Teachers of Other Languages (MATSOL) Conference, April 1985, and at the 1985 Staff Development Day for the Boston Public Schools, January 1985. (c) 2003 Vivian Troen, Katherine Boles; All Rights Reserved.