Working Together: Enhancing Urban Educator Quality Through School-University Partnerships

ISBN-13: 9781681237305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 254 str.

Diane Yendol-Hoppey

Opis

This book provides illustrations of urban school-university partnerships recognized by the Shirley Schwartz Award of Council of Great City Schools. The authors share their work by blending practitioner and researcher voices to offer other school and university based educators, policy makers, and foundation leadership potential solutions to the complex problem of preparing educators and enhancing teaching within urban schools. In each chapter, the authors describe their urban partnership story, the greatest challenges they faced, how they responded to those challenges, and evidence of impact. Given that each partnership is unique, the authors conclude each chapter by offering a set of questions for discussion. This book serves as an excellent resource for educators interested in establishing urban school-university partnerships that improve educator quality, strengthen the pipeline of urban educators, and expand Pk-12 students' learning experiences. The book is divided into three sections: (1) Teacher Candidate Preparation, (2) Teacher Professional Development, and (3) Principal Development.

Spis treści

• Preface.
• Acknowledgments.
• Introduction.
• Improving Urban Schools Through Partnerships.
• SECTION I: TEACHER CANDIDATE PREPARATION.
• A Stone of Hope: Preparing Masterful Readers and Teachers in an Urban Professional Development School.
• The Wichita Teacher Quality Partnership.
• Social Justice, Action Research, and New Partners: Evolving Notions of Impact in an Urban PDS/Residency Program.
• Urban Teacher Residency Partnership Program: A Partnership Between the University of South Florida College of Education and Hillsborough (FL) County Public Schools.
• The Partnership for Instructional Excellence and Quality (PIE-Q).
• The USF-Pepin Academies Summer Institute: Preparing Pre-service Teachers Within an Urban Charter School to Work With Students With Disabilities.
• SECTION II: TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
• The Mort Teacher Leader Academy: Developing Teacher Leaders for Urban Schools Together.
• A Partnership Between Brooklyn College–City University of New York and the American Museum of Natural History: Enhancing Teacher Preparation Through Informal Science Learning.
• SECTION III: PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENT.
• Leaders for Tomorrow: A Partnership Between Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and the Educational Leadership Program at Winthrop University.
• Developing and Sustaining the Gulf Coast Partnership: Possibilities, Successes, and Challenges in Preparing Leaders.
• Conclusion.
• Inch by Inch: “Getting it Right” in Urban School-University Partnerships.
• About the Authors.