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| Action research | Research conducted by teachers for the purpose of improving their own teaching or schools. Also called teacher research.
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| Autonomy norm | The expectation in many schools that teachers can do pretty much what they want within the confines of their classroom.
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| Ethos | Common set of values, beliefs, and ways of doing things found in particular classrooms or schools.
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| Hands-off norm | Expectation in many schools that teachers will not interfere in other teacher's work.
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| Loosely coupled | An organizational arrangement in which what goes on in one part of an organization is not very connected to what goes on in other parts of the organization.
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| Norms | The shared expectations students and teachers have for classroom behavior.
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| School culture | The ways members of a school think about social action; the embodied beliefs, values, and attitudes of members of a school. Ethos, tone, and community are often used to describe the same phenomenon.
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| School effectiveness research | Research that tries to uncover features that make some schools more effective than others.
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| Synergy | Positive results achieved from working together or through combined action.
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