Building Partnerships: Examining Equity and Supporting Faculty Development

• In Event: Friday Roundtable Session 11:25 am
  In Roundtable Session: K–12 Partnerships That Advance Asset-Orientation, Equity, and Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Pedagogies (Table 14)

Abstract

Research Practice Partnerships provide an opportunity to link scholarship directly with the immediate and practical needs of schools and communities. This paper reports on a partnership between a Northern University and a local school district that used a mixed-methods design to engage in a comprehensive equity review alongside professional learning opportunities for administrators and faculty members focused on culturally sustaining teaching practices. As a true collaboration, we worked together across institutional boundaries to design the project, including the collection and analysis of data. The professional learning opportunities were designed to support a cohort of district and teacher leaders to use data to make decisions that would address the gaps identified and better support students from culturally and linguistically non-dominant backgrounds.

Authors

• Rebecca Buchanan, University of Maine

• Ian Mette, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Leah Hakkola, University of Maine