Responding to the Call to Action: Designing a School University Partnership Centered on Equity and Antiracism

• In Event: Thursday Roundtable Session 9:00 am
  In Roundtable Session: Addressing Equity and Diversity in School-University Partnerships (Table 16)

Abstract

Teacher education programs are often organized around core practices representing traditional teaching models that seldomly integrate the needs of racially/ethnically diverse students. In addition, these traditional teaching models often exclude equity, antiracism, and culturally-relevant pedagogies, and if they are included, they are not consistent throughout the models. Research has found that carefully designing experiences outside of educational classrooms can heighten the learning and have a significant impact on preparing teacher candidates to teach in urban school settings (Author, 2019; Porcher et al., 2020; Porcher, 2021). This conceptual paper shares the importance of designing a school university partnership (SUP) with urban schools that center equity and antiracism, as well as how I designed a SUP that did this.

Author

• Shamaine Bertrand, The College of New Jersey