University-School Partnerships: Building on What We Know in the Service of Students and Families

Session Submission Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

This working group will focus on expanding upon knowledge about university-school partnerships and their implications for contributing to school reform and the experiences of children, families, and communities. Presenters will identify critical themes from their work and the possibilities for developing a responsive research agenda, relatively absent from this growing area of inquiry, that advances our ability to support and effect change in and with schools, specifically as these relate to school organization, curricular change, pedagogy and practice, and family involvement. Participants are interested in the ways in which partnership and collaboration occur, how they are sustained, how they challenge or re-inscribe the status quo about who has power, and how to eliminate such re-inscribing when and if it occurs.

Sub Unit

• Division A - Administration / Section 4: School Contexts and Communities

Chair

• Vivian L. Gadsden, University of Pennsylvania

Papers

• Just Like a Good Neighbor: Capacity Building and Civic Responsibility of University-School Partnerships - James Earl Davis, Temple University; Victoria Chou, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Conceptualizing “Deep University-School Partnerships”: Six Critical Factors of Implementation (and) for Research - Nancy W. Streim, Teachers College, Columbia University; Emily Zemke, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Urban University-Partnered Schools: Sites of Innovation or Sites of Exception? - Vivian L. Gadsden, University of Pennsylvania; Mary Yee, University of Pennsylvania; Susan Bickerstaff, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Shifting Power: University Researchers and Teachers Collaborating in the Development of an Early Childhood Curriculum - Jie Yie Park, Bard College; Cleopatra Jacobs Johnson, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.