Living Public Scholarship: Insights From a University-School Partnership

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Using an interactive format, this session reports research on a partnership between an urban high school labeled as “persistently struggling” and a local research university that has been approved as an “Educational Partnership Organization”. University researchers, the district’s superintendent, a principal, a teacher, and students address the challenges of conducting research alongside community engaged in a comprehensive school reform effort that, in effect, is changing everything. Presenters will address the opportunities and challenges of bringing together two discourse communities who often do not know how to speak to each other to produce knowledge that reflects both scholarly and local perspectives on the struggle to transform an urban high school

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Karen Hunter Quartz, University of California - Los Angeles

Participants

• Joanne C. Larson, University of Rochester

• Karen J. DeAngelis, University of Rochester

• Shaun Nelms, Rochester City School District

• Marlene Blocker, East Lower School

• Khieta Davis, East Lower School

• Catherine Wilson, University of Rochester

• Jalon Isaiah McCloud Wilson, East Lower School

• Zurilem Cabezudo Castro, East Lower School

• Gilerizbeth Sanchez, East Lower School

• Kwanza Howard, East Lower School

• Jaquala Young, East Lower School