Collaboration in Education

<p><em>Collaboration in Education</em> establishes a needed framework for school/university collaborations that will be critical for others wishing to reproduce and participate in these partnerships. The contributors explore the elements necessary for sustainable collaboration in order to provide a frame of reference for others doing this work. This volume will help readers to ask the correct questions in thinking through school/university collaboration, such as: Does this collaboration make a true change in the way each parent organization operates in the future? Does it meet the needs of a more complex and changing work environment for universities and schools? Does it impact beyond the participant institutions and inform the field by producing knowledge of use to others? This volume also includes extensive analyses of ongoing school/university projects in the United States, Asia and Europe.</p> <p>Introduction: The Meme of Collaboration <em>Judith J. Slater</em><strong> Section I: Professional Development Schools</strong> 1. When a Look Back Can Be a Step Forward: An Analysis of Two PDS Partnerships for Education Change and Improvement <em> Linda A. Catelli</em> 2. Growing a Multi-Site Professional Development School <em>John E. Henning, Becky Wilson Hawbaker, Debra S. Lee and Cynthia F. McDonald</em><strong>Section II: Consultation</strong> 3. Schools of Ambition: Bridging Professional and Institutional Boundaries <em>Moira Hulme, Ian Menter, Deirdre Kelly and Sheelagh Rusby</em> 4. Ten School Districts and One University: A Collaborative Consultation <em>Mary Phillips Manke and Rachael Marrier</em> 5. Elementary Public School and University Partnership: Promoting and Analyzing Professional Development Processes of School Teachers <em>Maria da Graça Nicoletti Mizukami, Aline Maria de Medeiros Rodrigues Reali and Regina Maria Simões Puccinelli Tancredi</em><strong>Section III: One-to-One Collaboration</strong> 6. Policy Development and Sustainability: How a Rural County Maximized Resources through Collaboration and Managed Change <em>David M. Callejo Pérez, Sebastián R. Díaz and Anonymous </em> 7. School-University Collaboration as Mutual Professional Development <em>Efrat Sara Efron, Maja Miskovic and Ruth Ravid </em> 8. A Public/Private Partnership in a Diverse Community <em>Maria Pacino</em><strong>Section IV: Multiple Configurations</strong> 9. Reflections on a Cross University-Urban School Partnership: The Critical Role of Humanizing the Process <em> Babette Benken and Nancy Brown </em> 10. A System’s Perspective for Professional Development in Science and Mathematics Education: The Texas Regional Collaboratives <em> James P. Barufaldi and Linda L.G. Brown</em> 11. Conducting Research that Practitioners Think is Relevant: Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium (MERC) <em> R. Martin Reardon and James McMillan</em> 12. A Miracle in Process: What it Takes to Make an Educational Partnership a True Collaboration <em>Kathleen Shinners</em> 13. Collaboration and Equitable Reform in Australian Schools: Beyond the Rhetoric <em> Joanne Deppeler and David Huggins</em> 14. Benefits, Challenges, and Lessons of Longitudinal Research Collaborations <em>Elizabeth A. Sloat, Joan F. Beswick and J. Douglas Willms</em><strong>Section V: Postsecondary</strong> 15. Reciprocity in Collaboration: Academy for Teacher Excellence’s Partnerships <em>Belinda Bustos Flores and Lorena Claeys</em> 16. Reconceptualizing Leadership and Power: The Collaborative Experiences of Women Educational Leaders <em> Debra Nakama and Joanne Cooper</em> 17. A CLASSIC © Approach to Collaboration: Documenting a Multi-State University and Multi-School District Partnership <em>Janet Penner-Williams, Della Perez, Diana Gonzales Worthen, Socorro Herrera and Kevin Murry</em><strong>Section VI: Technology Projects</strong> 18. School-University Collaboration for Technology Integration: Resistance, Risk-Taking, and Resilience <em> Cathy Risberg and Arlene Borthwick</em><strong>Section VII: Interagency Collaboration</strong> 19. Project FIRST: Families, Intercollegiate Collaboration, and Routes to Studying Teaching <em>Mary D. Burbank and Rosemarie Hunter</em> 20. Urban Teacher Residencies: Collaborating to Reconceptualize Urban Teacher Preparation <em>Wendy Gardiner and Carrie Kamm</em> 21. Sharing Power in an Interagency Collaboration <em>Jack Leonard and Lisa Gonsalves</em> 22. Collaborating for Labor Consciousness: The Education & Labor Collaborative <em>Adrienne Andi Sosin, Leigh David Benin, Rob Linné and Joel I. Sosinsky</em> Conclusion</p>