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Provides insights into university partnerships with urban schools.
How can we better educate disadvantaged urban students? Drawing on over five years' experience in a broad partnership involving twelve urban professional development schools in five districts, a teachers' union, a comprehensive public university, and several community-based organizations, the contributors to this volume describe how they worked together to help disadvantaged urban students through an innovative professional development program. By networking with educators at different levels and coordinating curriculum projects, they were able to begin overcoming rigid and ineffective mandates and curricula tied to standardized test scores and get through to their students on more meaningful and productive levels. The contributors share their successes and failures with these efforts, as well as insights related to the ethical, political, and academic challenges faced by professional development schools.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Equity Network: The Contextual and Theoretical Frameworks For Urban Professional Development Schools
Pia Lindquist Wong and Ronald David Glass
I. Toward Improving Urban Children's Lives
Ronald David Glass and Pia Lindquist Wong
1. Floating Boats and Solar Ovens: Involving Candidates in Science, Mathematics, and Technology Learning Communities
Lorie Hammond, Julita Lambating, Michael Beus, Paul Winckel, Jane Camm,and Larry Ferlazzo
2. Science for Social Responsibility
Claudya Lum, Elizabeth Aguirre, Ricardo Martinez,Mercedes Campa-Rodriguez,and Rita Ultreras
3. Education of the Community, by the Community,and for the Community: The Language Academy of Sacramento
Susan Baker, Eduardo de León, Pamela Phelps, Mario Martín,and Cynthia Suarez
II. The Power of Connections: Re-creating Teacher and Teacher Educator Roles
Pia Lindquist Wong and Ronald David Glass
4. Connecting Teacher Educators Across Roles, Domains, and Knowledge Bases
William Thomas Owens
5. Beyond the Classroom: Candidates Connect to Colleagues, Children, and Communities
Jeanne Malvetti and Christie Wells-Artman
6. Structural Shifts and Cultural Transformations: University Faculty Members and Their Work in PDSs
Jana Noel and Deidre B. Sessoms
III. The Politics of Transforming Institutions and Institutional Relationships
Pia Lindquist Wong and Ronald David Glass
7. Perspectives on Negotiation and Equilibrium in the Politics of Knowledge: Transforming the University and the School into a PDS Partnership
Kathryn Hayes
8. Not Starting from Scratch: Applying the Lessons from a Thwarted PDS Effort
Janet Hecsh
9. Bridging the Disconnect: The Promise of Lesson Study
David Jelinek and Jenna Porter
10. Making History by Creating New Traditions: Concluding Reflections and Future Directions
Ronald David Glass and Pia Lindquist Wong
References
List of Contributors
Index
