Katy Murphy, Oakland Tribune, 03/30/2012 / Updated 04/02/2012
"As the national school reform narrative zeros in on rewarding the best teachers and sorting out the bad apples, a quieter effort to shore up the teaching practice has taken root in some Bay Area schools.
"It's called "lesson study," a Japanese-inspired teaching model in which groups of teachers plan, observe and refine -- and sometimes, reteach -- a lesson, based on how the children respond to it."