Prioritizing Urban Children, Teachers, and Schools through Professional Development Schools

Pia Lindquist Wong And Ronald David Glass - Editors

Description

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.
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

Sujets

• Education

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• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 17 mars 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438426006
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Prioritizing Urban Children, Teachers, and Schools through Professional Development Schools

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Prioritizing Urban Children, Teachers, and Schools through Professional Development Schools

Edited by Pia Lindquist Wong and Ronald David Glass

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Prioritizing urban children, teachers, and schools through professional  development schools / edited by Pia Lindquist Wong and Ronald David  Glass.  p. cm.  Includes bibliographical references and index.  ISBN 978-1-4384-2593-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)  1. Laboratory schools—California—Sacramento—Case studies. 2. City children—Education—California—Sacramento—Case studies. 3. School improvement programs—California—Sacramento—Case studies. I. Wong, Pia. II. Glass, Ronald David.

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List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction: The Equity Network: The Contextual and Theoretical Frameworks for Urban Professional Development Schools Pia Lindquist Wong and Ronald David Glass

SECTION ONE: Toward Improving Urban Children’s Lives Ronald David Glass and Pia Lindquist Wong

Chapter One: Floating Boats and Solar Ovens: Involving Candidates in Science, Mathematics, and Technology Learning Communities Lorie Hammond, Julita G. Lambating, Michael Beus, Paul Winckel,  Jane F. Camm, and Larry Ferlazzo

Chapter Two: Science for Social Responsibility Claudya A. Lum, Elizabeth M. Aguirre, Ricardo Martinez,  Mercedes Campa-Rodriguez, and Rita Ultreras

Chapter Three: Education of the Community, by the Community, and for the Community: The Language Academy of Sacramento Susan Baker, Eduardo de León, Pam Phelps, Mario Martín,  and Cynthia Suarez

SECTION TWO: The Power of Connections: Re-creating Teacher and Teacher Educator Roles Pia Lindquist Wong and Ronald David Glass

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Chapter Four: Connecting Teacher Educators Across Roles, Domains, and Knowledge Bases William T. Owens Jr. 119

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Chapter Five: Beyond the Classroom: Candidates Connect to Colleagues, Children, and Communities  Jeanne Malvetti and Christie Wells-Artman

Chapter Six: Structural Shifts and Cultural Transformations: University Faculty Members and their Work in PDSs Jana Noel and Deidre B. Sessoms

SECTION THREE: The Politics of Transforming Institutions and Institutional Relationships Pia Lindquist Wong and Ronald David Glass

Chapter Seven: Perspectives on Negotiation and Equilibrium in the Politics of Knowledge: Transforming the University and the School into a PDS Partnership  Kathryn Hayes

Chapter Eight: Not Starting from Scratch: Applying the Lessons from a Thwarted PDS Effort  Janet I. Hecsh

Chapter Nine: Bridging the Disconnect: The Promise of Lesson Study David Jelinek and Jenna Porter

Making History by Creating New Traditions: Concluding Reflections and Future Directions Ronald David Glass and Pia Lindquist Wong

References

List of Contributors

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Figures and Tables

Table 1. Equity Network PDSs: Key Activities

Table 2. Survey Results from Bowling Green

Figure 1. Japan’s Professional Development Model

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