1. Thread on final article in #LessonStudy based Teacher Education by Jongsung Kim. Lesson Study as democratic teacher professional development. Great start quoting @HargreavesBC (2000 p165):
2. ‘Professional development is usually most effective when it is not delivered by extraneous experts in off-site locations but when it is embedded in the life and work of the school..’ then Dewey (1996 p31) on democracy…
3. ‘Democracy is more than a form of government, it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint, communicated experience…’ Schools are places of doing democracy rather than knowing democracy where teachers are curricular and instructional gatekeepers.
4. CPDL (like #LessonStudy) which offers teachers opportunities for reflective and purposeful inquiry is democratic because it gives teachers a voice in their own learning and development. Teacher agency is a phenomenon which allows teachers to be agents of change.
5. (Biesta, Priestley, Robinson 2015): #LessonStudy provides the conditions and circumstances to achieve teacher agency. It assumes they are teaching and learning professionals and helps them to become protagonists in their own professional development…
6. …helps them build the knowledge and skills to be successful in the classroom. With intentional/systemic reflection on practice teachers can develop new theory while they are connecting theory to practice.
7. In #LessonStudy teachers broaden their horizon of educational understanding by studying instructional materials, curriculum guidance & research before designing lessons collaboratively. They reflect on their expertise from new perspectives & create collective wisdom…
8. #LessonStudy tackles teacher isolation and deprivatises practice. Teachers share their expertise to improve lesson design. This builds an open climate and collaborative culture for reforming schools.
9. Where participants understand the philosophy of #LessonStudy and they are both curricular/instructional gatekeepers and teaching and learning professionals, teacher agency can flourish and LS qualifies as democratic teacher professional development.
10. #LessonStudy empowers teachers to create their own practitioner knowledge & connect theory directly to practice, and adds diversity to what teachers need to learn to succeed in their classrooms.
12. With communication, collaboration and critical reflection #LessonStudy can be a space for practising/doing democracy where collegial and cooperative professionalism thrives in a community of solidarity.
13. Hurrah! 🤓👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 
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