Purpose: This article highlights the recipient of the Exemplary PDS Award given by the National Association of School-University Partnerships. In 2024, the University of North Carolina Wilmington's Watson College of Education (WCE) PDS School-University Partnership with Isaac Bear Early College (IBEC) and Southeast Area Technical (SEA-Tech) High…

Supporting Indigenous students' social-emotional learning (SEL) is important given the systemic impact of colonialism that has contributed to their higher mental health and academic disparities compared to White students. One way to promote SEL is through professional development for educators, yet there has been little research on the development…

This paper discusses the opportunity for universities and Professional Development Schools (PDSs) to engage with Future Teachers of America (FTA) clubs and similar groups in secondary schools to ensure the future of the profession. Student leaders and their mentor from an active high school FTA club share their perspectives on the benefits of…

In this article the authors describe how their PDS Partnership collaborated to hold recruitment events to intentionally recruit more diverse teacher candidates. The authors discuss the beginning of the partnership and the specific aspects of the recruitment programs.

Considering the critical need to support students' mental health and wellbeing, this article outlines a standards-based approach that integrates flourishing within a high school English/Language Arts classroom and supports clinical practice and professional development in a professional development school (PDS). Using the book, "The Bean…

We investigated teachers' understanding of the Mathematical Practices (MPs; National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & the Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010) and the Mathematics Teachers Practices (MTPs; NCTM, 2014) using a Vignette Activity Sequence within a professional development setting with our Professional…

This article provides a first-hand account of the author's experience realizing that her high school science students, many of whom were students of color, were not engaged in learning in her classes and how she learned about and put into practice more culturally sustaining and relevant pedagogies.

In this article the author shares the findings of an exploratory study of secondary teacher candidates and their clinical educators after the candidates participated in a course on diversity and equity that included clinical experiences in a local community-focused high school. Findings indicate that candidates reported developing their knowledge…

Professional development schools (PDS), a specific type of school-university partnership, offer distinctive learning environments for teachers by encouraging innovation and modeling best instructional practices. In PDS partnerships, opportunities abound for teachers to assume learning-focused leadership roles such as team lead, instructional…

The teacher shortage calls for innovative recruitment, development, and retention practices. This qualitative inquiry highlights the Academy for Future Teachers (AFT), a teacher-cadet program for high-schoolers interested in teaching. We endeavored to understand how the varied participants' in AFT (high schoolers, teacher residents, and master…

The accrediting body, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), has set forth a set of new standards that demand excellence and produce educators who raise PK-12 student achievement. Standard 2: Clinical Partnerships and Practice requires that educator preparation programs (EPP) seeking accreditation should have strong…

Practicum fieldwork was conducted in an urban high school setting using a Professional Development Schools (PDS) model, with a focus on multicultural and social justice counseling competencies (MSJCC). Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyze the journal responses of 16 counseling students to ascertain MSJCC development during…

Dating back to 1990, the PDS relationship between the University of South Carolina and Dreher High School in Columbia, South Carolina, has had a persistent dedication to a partnership that not only benefits pre-service teacher candidates but also empowers early career teachers to actively engage in their school. This article describes how this…

Salisbury University (SU) has been preparing teachers since 1925 and has earned a stellar reputation in teacher preparation, especially through its work with PDS. In 2009, SU was honored with the NAPDS "Spirit of Partnership" award for its contributions to the annual national conference. SU and Worcester County Public Schools earned the…

A new program of teacher training in a dialogical spirit in order to prepare them towards working in the field of philosophy with children combines cultivating creativity and self-reflective thinking had been operated as a part of cooperation between the academia and the education system in Israel. This article describes the program that is a part…