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Mawhinney, Lynnette; Dell'Angelo, Tabitha; Yessenia Alston, Mariah; Gerity, Megan; Katz, Melissa; Vanderbilt, Angelica – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2020
This academic year marks the tenth anniversary of the establishment of a five-year (bachelors and masters) urban teacher education program at a small, state institution in the northeast. This program was founded on the principles of social justice and decolonization "with" and "through" critical scholars such as Freire (1996),…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Urban Education, Program Development
Tung, Rosann; Villavicencio, Adriana – Voices in Urban Education, 2018
The authors set out to organize a small convening of educator-researcher teams from across seven districts engaged in My Brother's Keeper (MBK) efforts. Their goals were to gather a small enough number of participants to ensure deep conversation in a convening long enough to foster authentic connections among us, and to include mechanisms to…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, School Districts, Urban Education, Educational Researchers
Towle, Angela; Leahy, Kathleen – Metropolitan Universities, 2016
The Learning Exchange was established by the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1999 in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES). The challenge has been to create a shared space for learning exchanges between two very different communities: a research-intensive university and an inner city area most commonly depicted as a place of hopelessness.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, School Community Programs, Urban Areas
Walker, Michael; Yeager, Corey; Zumbusch, Jennie – Voices in Urban Education, 2018
The Office of Black Male Student Achievement (OBMSA) of Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), established in 2014, is one of the first in the country. The innovative work of the OBMSA is centered on student voice and student thought. After getting input from parents and families, community members, educators, and young Black males themselves, the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, African American Students, Males, Academic Achievement
Martin, Suzanne M.; Little, Joyce; Miller, Katie; Gourwitz, Jillian – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2014
Special education administrators play a critical role in the implementation of successful inclusion in diverse, standards-based environments. They provide the vision and leadership necessary to guide educators in both general and special education as they deliver instructional programs to meet the needs of diverse students with disabilities.…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Special Education, Leadership Training, Administrators
Marcus, Alan S.; Moss, David M. – Journal of International Social Studies, 2015
This article discusses two education abroad programs that afford pre-service teachers with purposeful opportunities to enhance their intercultural competence through immersion in teaching internships in British schools. The programs, in London and Nottingham, provide pre-service teachers with direct experiences that engage them with diverse…
Descriptors: Intercultural Programs, Multicultural Education, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Online Submission, 2018
Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Miron, Gary; Jones, Jeffrey N.; Kelaher-Young, Allison J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
The Kalamazoo Promise provides a scholarship for full tuition for any high school graduate from the district who's been accepted to attend a Michigan postsecondary institution. The Promise has changed the attitudes of the students, their parents, and the community and has combined with other efforts to promote successful reform and systemic change…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Scholarships, Tuition, High School Graduates
Lawrence, Oliver – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2010
The Global Internet Video Classroom (GIVC) Project connected Chicago Civil Rights activists of the 1960s with Cape Town Anti-Apartheid activists of the 1960s in a classroom setting where learners from Cape Town and Chicago engaged activists in conversations about their motivation, principles, and strategies. The project was launched in order to…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Civil Rights, Racial Segregation, Program Descriptions
Hoyt, Lorlene – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2010
This article tells a story of practice, a story of theory, and how each informs and transforms the other through a two-way flow of people and knowledge from a city to a campus and back again. By reflecting with fellow participants on the events and outcomes of a sustained city campus partnership, the author introduces a theory of engagement from…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Urban Education, Partnerships in Education, Community Development
Academy for Educational Development, 2012
The Academy for Educational Development (AED) sent a research team to New York University (NYU) on December 8-9, 2008 to conduct interviews with individuals who play important roles in the university's teacher preparation program. These interviews, along with additional documentation provided by NYU and identified by the AED research team, provide…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Student Teacher Evaluation
Simon, Nicole S.; Grosso, Andrew – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2009
Over the last five years, the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice (SLJ), a new, small public high school in Brooklyn, and The Essentials, a professional theater company, have joined forces to offer a low-budget, high-quality, in-house afterschool theater program for SLJ students. Both SLJ and The Essentials were in nascent stages when the…
Descriptors: Models, Partnerships in Education, After School Programs, Theater Arts
Lishawa, Shane; Schubel, Adam; Varty, Alison; Tuchman, Nancy – Metropolitan Universities, 2010
Universities are uniquely positioned to lead society toward sustainability and their collaborations with community organizations are essential to this transition. The Biodiesel Program at Loyola University at Chicago Center for Urban Environmental Research and Policy provides a case study of course-based service learning projects facilitating…
Descriptors: Environmental Research, Service Learning, Community Organizations, Sustainable Development
Onore, Cynthia; Gildin, Bonny – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2010
Despite progress in urban teacher preparation over the past 40 years, concerns still remain about transforming programs and practices in order to affect teachers' capacities to work with culturally diverse communities. These concerns include time in course curricula for discussion and reflection on field-based work, adequate supervision in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Community Development, Urban Schools, Urban Teaching
Juceviciene, Palmira – European Journal of Education, 2010
Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania and has strong links with its large rural hinterland. Working from the ideas and examples in "Learning Cities for a Learning Century," (Longworth, 1999) and through contact with other cities that have already implemented lifelong learning concepts, the city has, since 2001, started out on…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Urban Education