Collaboration--across Campus, Across Town, and With K-12 Schools


Book Description

First Published in 2000. This is Volume 75, Number 3 of the Peabody Journal of Education and focuses on collaboration across campus, town and with K-12 schools. The issue provides descriptions of a range of ways in which universities and schools and colleges of education can provide leadership for collaborative ventures involving the wider community. The collaborative undertakings include working with community agencies, other schools or colleges within or external to the institution, P-12 schools, and business groups. The rationale for the theme is that in today's world the problems we are facing are so complex that solutions can no longer be generated and successfully implemented in a vacuum. Cross-disciplinary and cross-sector collaboration is required to have the desired impact. This necessitates collaboration.




Collaboration--across Campus, Across Town, and With K-12 Schools


Book Description

First Published in 2000. This is Volume 75, Number 3 of the Peabody Journal of Education and focuses on collaboration across campus, town and with K-12 schools. The issue provides descriptions of a range of ways in which universities and schools and colleges of education can provide leadership for collaborative ventures involving the wider community. The collaborative undertakings include working with community agencies, other schools or colleges within or external to the institution, P-12 schools, and business groups. The rationale for the theme is that in today's world the problems we are facing are so complex that solutions can no longer be generated and successfully implemented in a vacuum. Cross-disciplinary and cross-sector collaboration is required to have the desired impact. This necessitates collaboration.




Expanding College Access for Urban Youth


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This timely book demonstrates why there needs to be a more thoughtful and collaborative effort on the part of K–12 schools, as well as institutions of higher education, to provide better college access to students from low-income communities. Building on a 10-year case study of a successful school-university partnership, the authors examine the supports, mentoring, and resources needed to transform the college opportunities and life chances for under-represented urban youth. Featuring first-hand accounts from student participants, the book documents how the model provided college access to some of the most selective and prestigious universities across the nation. Because this partnership situates college access within a social justice framework, it is one of the more unique programs in the country. “Few social problems are of more pressing importance than the challenge of increasing access to higher education. Howard, Tunstall, and Flennaugh carefully outline those problems and give us our marching orders. Historical. Empirical. Well-written. Thoughtful. Provocative. This book is useful for all of us concerned about access and equity in education.” —William G. Tierney, professor & co-director, Pullias Center for Higher Education, University of Southern California “This book represents a moral and ethical call to any of us who believe in an educational pipeline for liberty, humanity, possibility, and justice for all—everyday!” —H. Richard Milner IV, Helen Faison Professor of Urban Education, University of Pittsburgh Contributors: Irene Atkins, Bree Blades, Jon Carroll, Whitney Gouche, Tr’Vel Lyons, Justyn Patterson, Jerry Morrison, Michelle Smith, Ashley V. Williams




School, Family, and Community Partnerships


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Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.




Building and Maintaining Collaborative Communities


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Introduction : Collaborative Communities / Judith J. Slater -- Multiple University Collaborations With One Urban High School : Building a Partnership, One Project at a Time / Harry Ross -- A Collaboration of Three Organizations : Adjusting the Professional Development School Model to Prepare Community Teachers / Alon Pauker and Aviva Klieger -- Sun Devils, Bobcats in the Valley of the Sun, and the Phoenix Suns / Cory Cooper Hansen, Ryen Borden, Tray Geiger, and Audrey Amrein-Beardsley -- L.A.U.R.E.N.'S Camp : Building and Supporting Self-Constructs of Middle School Girls Through a School, University, and Community Collaboration / Cory Cooper Hansen, Ryen Borden, Tray Geiger, and Audrey Amrein-Beardsley -- School, University, and Community Partnerships : Democratic Dialogue for Change / Anne Marie FitzGerald, Melissa Wagner, and Lina Dostilio -- When Community Support Fails : How a Local Early College Program Failed to Gain Traction / Tara L. Shepperson, Rose Skepple, and Stephanie Smith -- Leading Change : Collaboration Between Sakhnin Arab Teacher Education College and Al-Bashaer High School / Khalid Arar, Malik Yousef, Rania Ismael, and Amer Badarneh -- Convergence Culture and School Change : Developing Collaborative Learning Communities for the 21st Century / Alexios Rosario-Moor -- The Iterative Partnership Paradigm : Creating Healthy, Sustainable University/School District/Community Organization Relationships That Work / Marla Susman Israel, Nancy Goldberger, Elizabeth Vera, Amy Heineke, and Bernasha Anderson -- A Multiple Configuration Partnership : The Case of a University Department and High School Collaboration / Brian P. Zoellner and Richard H. Chant -- Partnerships That Transform Communities Involving Higher Education and K-12, Utilizing the Asset-Based Paradigm / Gina Weisblat and Jeffrey McClellan -- The Legacy Project : A Permanent Outdoor LGBT History Exhibit Empowers a Community / Gabriel Gomez and Gerri Spinella -- Linking School and Community : A Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) Approach in a Rural Community to Promote Education / Rosa D. Manzo -- The Cardinal Success Center @Shawnee : Building A Sustainable University, School, And Community Collaboration / Eugene H. Foster, Cheri Bryant Hamilton, and Houston M. Barber -- Building a University-Assisted School Through Interagency Collaboration / Nancy W. Streim -- Partnering With a Promise Academy : The Mcmichael-Drexel-Mantua Civic Association Collaboration / Tina Richardson, Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo, James E. Connell, Allen Grant, Vera J. Lee, and Brian Wallace -- A Three-Way Partnership to Bridge and Connect Institutional Perspectives on English Language Learner Instruction / Eduardo Muñoz-Muñoz and Ada Ocampo -- Facilitating College and Career Readiness : A Case Study of a Community Partnership / Janet D. Holmes Peeples -- A Social Network Analysis of Educational Collaborative Efforts Among Chilean Universities : Community Funding and School Involvement / Juan Pablo Queupil and David A. Munoz.




Partnerships and Collaboration in Higher Education


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The current context in higher education is becoming increasingly complex. Coupled with this organizational complexitiy of operations is a climate of diminishing resources and funding for education in general. Calls for educational reform and limited resources make collaborative responses an attractive option because of the ability to pool talent and resources. Collaborative efforts take many forms. Partnerships may emerge from insitutions working together, departments working across institutions or with community partners, or colleges and universities pairing across national borders. Likewise, collaborations may emerge between and among faculty members that resemble more traditional research projects. From these faculty collaborations, organizational partnerships may then develop. This monograph explroes the key building blocks required to create successful joint ventures. One section reviews partnerships from an institutional perspective, another covers individual collaborations, and a section on future issues identifies threats to partnerships, emergence of international partnerships, and steps to create strategic partnerships. The target audience for this volume includes those interested in developing partnerships or better supporting existing alliances. Administrators with a goal of using partnerships to parlay organizational strengths while saving resources can anticipate problems with the formation of partnerships, undersnd the elemtns that provide support for group work, and learn how to frame the partnership to leverage commitment through a shared vision. Faculty interested in collaboration will find many valuable insights regarding the right questions to ask before committing to a project. And policymakers and grant-funding agencies can use the information to craft mandates and grant language to best support successful partnerships. ultimately, understanding the process of developing partnerships can result in more successful collaborations. This is Vol 36 Issue 2 of the Jossey Bass Ashe Higher Education Report. Each monograph in the series is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education problem, based on thorough research of pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.




Asking the Right Questions


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This work provides school change leaders with tools, techniques, tips, examples, illustrations, and stories about promoting school change. Tools provided include histograms, surveys, run charts, weighted voting, force-field analysis, decision matrices, and many others. Chapter 1, "Introduction," applies a matrix for asking questions about change in four typical scenarios. Chapter 2, "Asking the Right Questions," presents critical questions regarding five stages of school improvement: preparation, focus, diagnosis, plan development, and implementation/monitoring. Chapter 3, "Answering the 'Where Are We Now?' Question," discusses ways to use data on student achievement, perceptual data, and the need to clarify roles and responsibilities. Chapter 4, "Answering the 'Where Do We Want to Go?' Question," applies the initiation, planning, and training stages of three models. Chapter 5, "Answering the 'How Will We Get There?' Question," contrasts the planning, training, and implementation stages of three relevant models. Chapter 6, "Answering the 'How Will We Know We Are (Getting) There?' Question," explores elements of assessing outcomes and reveals the importance of accurate monitoring. Chapter 7, "Answering the 'How Will We Sustain the Focus and Momentum?' Question" demonstrates the need for such critical elements as maintenance, institutionalization, and the PDCA tasks of check, act, and adjust plans. Chapter 8, "Bonus Questions" includes additional guidance for administrators on other aspects of school-improvement efforts. Chapter 9, "Using This Book," contains an index of tools and reviews scenarios and examples to further clarify the use of the tools described in earlier chapters. (Contains 21 annotated references and a 7-page index.) (TEJ)










What is College Reading?


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This collection offers replicable strategies to help educators think about how and when students learn the skills of reading, synthesizing information, and drawing inferences across multiple texts.