Collaboration in Education

Judith J. Slater is Professor Emerita, Florida International University. Her books include Anatomy of a Collaboration: Study of a College of Education/Public School Partnership (1996), Acts of Alignment (2000), editor of Teen Life in Asia (2004), co-editor of The Freirean Legacy (2002), Pedagogy of Place (2004), Educating for Democracy in a Changing World: Understanding Freedom in Contemporary America (2007), and War Against the Professions: The Impact of Politics and Economics on the Idea of the University (2009). Ruth Ravid is Professor, National-Louis University. Her books include The Many Faces of School-University Collaboration: Characteristics of Successful Partnerships (2001), Practical Statistics for Educators (2005), Workbook to Accompany Practical Statistics for Educators (2005) and Practical Statistics for Business: An Introduction to Business Statistics (2008).

• Introduction: The Meme of Collaboration Judith J. Slater Section I: Professional Development Schools 1. When a Look Back Can Be a Step Forward: An Analysis of Two PDS Partnerships for Education Change and Improvement Linda A. Catelli 2. Growing a Multi-Site Professional Development School John E. Henning, Becky Wilson Hawbaker, Debra S. Lee and Cynthia F. McDonaldSection II: Consultation 3. Schools of Ambition: Bridging Professional and Institutional Boundaries Moira Hulme, Ian Menter, Deirdre Kelly and Sheelagh Rusby 4. Ten School Districts and One University: A Collaborative Consultation Mary Phillips Manke and Rachael Marrier 5. Elementary Public School and University Partnership: Promoting and Analyzing Professional Development Processes of School Teachers Maria da Graça Nicoletti Mizukami, Aline Maria de Medeiros Rodrigues Reali and Regina Maria Simões Puccinelli TancrediSection III: One-to-One Collaboration 6. Policy Development and Sustainability: How a Rural County Maximized Resources through Collaboration and Managed Change David M. Callejo Pérez, Sebastián R. Díaz and Anonymous 7. School-University Collaboration as Mutual Professional Development Efrat Sara Efron, Maja Miskovic and Ruth Ravid 8. A Public/Private Partnership in a Diverse Community Maria PacinoSection IV: Multiple Configurations 9. Reflections on a Cross University-Urban School Partnership: The Critical Role of Humanizing the Process Babette Benken and Nancy Brown 10. A System’s Perspective for Professional Development in Science and Mathematics Education: The Texas Regional Collaboratives James P. Barufaldi and Linda L.G. Brown 11. Conducting Research that Practitioners Think is Relevant: Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium (MERC) R. Martin Reardon and James McMillan 12. A Miracle in Process: What it Takes to Make an Educational Partnership a True Collaboration Kathleen Shinners 13. Collaboration and Equitable Reform in Australian Schools: Beyond the Rhetoric Joanne Deppeler and David Huggins 14. Benefits, Challenges, and Lessons of Longitudinal Research Collaborations Elizabeth A. Sloat, Joan F. Beswick and J. Douglas WillmsSection V: Postsecondary 15. Reciprocity in Collaboration: Academy for Teacher Excellence’s Partnerships Belinda Bustos Flores and Lorena Claeys 16. Reconceptualizing Leadership and Power: The Collaborative Experiences of Women Educational Leaders Debra Nakama and Joanne Cooper 17. A CLASSIC © Approach to Collaboration: Documenting a Multi-State University and Multi-School District Partnership Janet Penner-Williams, Della Perez, Diana Gonzales Worthen, Socorro Herrera and Kevin MurrySection VI: Technology Projects 18. School-University Collaboration for Technology Integration: Resistance, Risk-Taking, and Resilience Cathy Risberg and Arlene BorthwickSection VII: Interagency Collaboration 19. Project FIRST: Families, Intercollegiate Collaboration, and Routes to Studying Teaching Mary D. Burbank and Rosemarie Hunter 20. Urban Teacher Residencies: Collaborating to Reconceptualize Urban Teacher Preparation Wendy Gardiner and Carrie Kamm 21. Sharing Power in an Interagency Collaboration Jack Leonard and Lisa Gonsalves 22. Collaborating for Labor Consciousness: The Education & Labor Collaborative Adrienne Andi Sosin, Leigh David Benin, Rob Linné and Joel I. Sosinsky Conclusion