Preparing Exemplary Teachers and Leaders for Every Child: Building a Network of Institutions to Inspire a National Movement

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In response to the 2020 AERA Annual Meeting theme, we propose a symposium to present and invite discussion of a new collaboration between fifteen leading institutions of higher education, their partner p-12 schools and districts, and educational policymakers, to catalyze and sustain change in educator preparation on a national scale. We will present the core principles upon which the network has coalesced, the theory of change we are pursuing, and examples of cross-institutional and intra-institutional collaboration and inquiry. To engage the audience in a town hall discussion, we pose three questions to interrogate the dilemmas the field of educator preparation faces in building a national movement to prepare excellent teachers and leaders for every child.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Systems Thinking in Education

Chair

• Jessica Charles, Bank Street College of Education

Papers

• Deepening Deeper Learning: Building a Coherent Equity Focus Across Teacher, Leader, and Executive Preparation - Rebecca Cheung, University of California - Berkeley; Jennifer Robinson, Montclair State University

• Building Community and Context-Specific, Antiracist Programs That Support Student and Faculty Learning - Kay Fujiyoshi; Kelly Wilson, High Tech High Graduate School of Education

• Recursive, Relational, and Reflexive: Deeper Learning Pedagogies - Elizabeth Anne Self, Vanderbilt University; Heather J. Johnson, Vanderbilt University

Discussant

• Maria E. Hyler, Learning Policy Institute