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Context-Specific Teaching Practice: Collaborating With Children's Families, Communities, and Community-Based Organizations to Support Equitable Teaching

Tue, April 12, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Marriott Marquis, Floor: Level One, University of DC

Session Type: Symposium

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This symposium examines research on teacher education initiatives that scaffold and support teacher learning through substantive collaborations with families, communities, and the community-based organizations that support them. Each of the papers examines the following overarching question from distinct programmatic and contextual lenses: How can teacher educators enact substantive and instructionally rich collaborations with children's families, communities and community-based organizations so as to support teacher candidates’ capacities to teach in ambitious and equitable ways (see, for example, Zeichner, Payne, Brayko, 2015)? These papers extend the field’s understandings of how to support equitable and ambitious instruction to all children by enabling teachers to leverage children’s, families’, and communities’ experiences and assets in instructionally salient ways.

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