There are important connections between child-centered approaches, wellness, and the activist role that art museum educators can play in their institutions and the wider community. While there are practical challenges to achieving these goals within a small institution, the museum educator's positionality in such an institution can allow for…

In this article, the authors reflect on how they would adapt the practices of a previous successful university-public school partnership with the ever-increasing adoption by districts of scripted programs for math instruction at the elementary grade levels. The partnership with rural elementary schools focused on improving students' overall…

Classrooms are operating differently during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in lab-based courses. Virtual classrooms utilizing Zoom, Google Meet, or other conferencing software can create challenges for hands-on, lab-based classes. These virtual methods also pose problems for pre-service teacher education students attempting to gain much needed…

Concerns about the lack of connection between university-based teacher education courses and clinical experiences have long been shared. Practice-based teacher education has been offered as one way to connect these two aspects of teacher education closer together. However, descriptions about how to implement practice-based teacher education in…

The vast literature on teacher professional development (PD) often assumes that the success of a PD programme should be measured by the extent to which the participating teachers accept and adopt, often in a relatively linear chain, the programme of learning, paying insufficient attention to how highly accomplished teachers respond to PD…

This chapter describes two case studies that highlight how courses can be taught simultaneously in classrooms across partnering university campuses using the effective, evidence-based team-based learning (TBL) method. The objective is to assist faculty in effectively using TBL in a synchronous virtual collaborative space.

The purpose of this project was to create a unique educational experience in order to understand the extent to which excursions can be used to complement and extend classroom-based curricula. The project facilitated a genuine school-museum-university partnership to plan and implement curriculum that supports learning before, during and after…

This article describes one specific course within a large urban university that uses school university partnerships and clinical practice experiences to prompt elementary education teacher candidates to enact equitable mathematics teaching practices in the classroom. It begins by providing a brief overview of equitable mathematics practices,…

Students from underrepresented populations--females, working class, and youth from marginalized racial/ethnic groups--are less likely than their middle-class Asian and White male peers to study computer science (CS) in college. The dearth of CS undergraduates from these groups contributes to projected labor force shortages. Sources of the dilemma…

The effects of professional teacher dispositions on student development have been widely documented. Yet there is limited discussion of the impact of socially just dispositions. The present study critically examines the relationship between justice-oriented mind-sets in preservice teachers and their perceptions of teaching in urban schools. Using…

The changes taking place in the schooling landscape because of the coronavirus are real and meaningful and have implications for the training of preservice teachers, especially the teaching practicum component of their initial teacher education programs. The havoc caused by COVID-19 forced many faculties of education into a state of 'panic-gogy'…

This article shares insights from the experiences of three high school practitioners and two university faculty who participated in a school-university-based action research program as a voluntary part of the teachers' professional development. The three high school practitioners conducted action research projects around questions that stemmed…

This study examines the experiences of six K-5 elementary school teachers in professional learning spaces for antiracism. Teachers from two elementary schools established school-university partnerships to begin antiracist work: one on a whole-school level, the other a group of teachers meeting voluntarily with university faculty. Given the paucity…

This article documents how one Teacher Preparation Program (TPP) at a medium-sized public university in the northeast responded to the needs of their urban partners during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The adaptation of this school-university partnership involved improving relationships where the TPP is more responsive to the needs of this urban…

Integration of technology in schools rests on effective teacher education programmes that help teachers create new teaching and learning methods and adopt them for classroom use. Social learning processes play a key role in this, but there is a lack of understanding of their role in technology adoption and in evidencing them in teacher education…