Prioritizing urban children, teachers, and schools through professional development schools
By: edited by Pia Lundquist Wong and Ronald David Glass.
Contributors: Wong, Pia.; Glass, Ronald David.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781438425931
Subjects: Laboratory schools -- California -- Sacramento -- Case studies; City children -- Education -- California -- Sacramento -- Case studies; School improvement programs -- California -- Sacramento -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the equity network: the contextual and theoretical frameworks for urban professional development schools / Pia L. Wong and Ronald D. Glass; title: Floating boats and solar ovens: involving candidates in science, mathematics, and technology learning communities / Lorie Hammond ... [et al.]; title: Science for social responsibility / Claudya Lum ... [et al.]; title: Education of the community, by the community, and for the community: the Language Academy of Sacramento / Susan Baker ... [et al.]; title: Connecting teacher educators across roles, domains, and knowledge bases / William Thomas Owens; title: Beyond the classroom: candidates connect to colleagues, children, and communities / Jeanne Malvetti and Christie Wells-Artman; title: Structural shifts and cultural transformations: university faculty members and their work in PDSS / Jana Noel and Deidre B. Sessoms; title: Perspectives on negotiation and equilibrium in the politics of knowledge: transforming the university and the school into a PDS partnership / Kathryn Hayes; title: Not starting from scratch: applying the lessons from a thwarted PDS effort / Janet Hecsh; title: Bridging the disconnect: the promise of lesson study / David Jelinek and Jenna Porter; title: Making history by creating new traditions: concluding reflections and future directions / Ronald D. Glass and Pia L. Wong.