Mr. Schwartz is a former project director of New York City's Professional Development School. They assume work overloads for little or no pay, have less time for research, and incur resentment from colleagues irked by this upstart competitor for resources. Two years before NASA expanded our horizon in space by rocketing Neil Armstrong to the moon in 1969, Robert Schaeffer conceptualized a vision of American education in his book The School as a Center of Inquiry . While schools as places are the prominent feature in the PDS picture, a professional-development school is not simply a particular school. The name is misleading.
Reform is cultivated in colleges as well as schools.
The PDS enthusiast values the team theme that has sparked change in business, engineering, and medicine. This approach is uncommon in traditional professor-teacher relationships. This teacher-educator is referring to her work at Public School 87 on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a partner school with Teachers College, Columbia University. Several teachers have been adjunct instructors in Teachers College's preservice core seminar. The other schools are Middle School 44, PS 165, and The Beacon High School, all on the Upper West Side, and PS 207 in Harlem.