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View article: Celebrating the 2024 Jason Kinsey Award Winner from the National Association for School-University Partnerships
Celebrating the 2024 Jason Kinsey Award Winner from the National Association for School-University Partnerships Open
Purpose The purpose of this article is to offer an overview of the prestigious Jason Kinsey Award given by the National Association for School-University Partnerships (NASUP). The article outlines the history and purpose, chronicles previo…
View article: Conceptualizing Images of Supervisors in Teacher Education
Conceptualizing Images of Supervisors in Teacher Education Open
Due to the marginalization of supervision (Butler, et al., 2023; Nolan, 2022) and few frameworks to conceptualize supervision in teacher preparation, educational supervision of clinical experiences receives less attention and fewer resourc…
View article: Revised Essential 8: the importance of boundary spanning roles
Revised Essential 8: the importance of boundary spanning roles Open
Purpose This paper aims to provide details around Essential 8 of the Second Edition of the National Association for Professional Development Schools (NAPDS) Nine Essentials (NAPDS, 2021), which focuses on boundary spanning roles across uni…
View article: What it means to be a professional development school: the Nine Essentials
What it means to be a professional development school: the Nine Essentials Open
Purpose The National Association for Professional Development Schools (NAPDS) recognizes that there is a tendency for the term “PDS” (Professional Development School) to be used as a catch-all for various relationships that constitute scho…
View article: Essential 2: “clinical practice” is what professional development schools do
Essential 2: “clinical practice” is what professional development schools do Open
Purpose The purpose of this article is to unpack more deeply Essential 2: Clinical Preparation. This article offers a comparison of the first and second editions of Essential 2 and also provides resources and activities partners can use an…
View article: Toward a Renewal of Supervisory Scholarship and Practice in Teacher Education: A Collaborative Self-Study
Toward a Renewal of Supervisory Scholarship and Practice in Teacher Education: A Collaborative Self-Study Open
University supervision of teacher candidates is a well-recognized component of teacher preparation. However, teacher education has long devalued supervision, largely relying upon retired teachers, administrators, and graduate students to s…
View article: Expanding on the Revised Essential 7: shared governance structures
Expanding on the Revised Essential 7: shared governance structures Open
Purpose The study aims to review the Nine Essentials. Design/methodology/approach The authors worked with groups from different conferences to gather data. Findings A PDS (Professional Development School) is built upon shared, sustainable …
View article: Essential 1: justice is our “comprehensive mission”
Essential 1: justice is our “comprehensive mission” Open
Purpose To detail the revised Essential #1. Design/methodology/approach This is a description and case study of Essential #1. Findings This article includes the following elements: details of the rationale behind the revisions to the Essen…
View article: Essential 3: professional learning in the context of PDS’ and school-university partnerships
Essential 3: professional learning in the context of PDS’ and school-university partnerships Open
Purpose The purpose of this article is to provide a description as well as examples related to Essential 3 in the Second Edition of the NAPDS Nine Essentials.
View article: Essential 5: what can collaborative research look like in PDSs and school–university partnerships?
Essential 5: what can collaborative research look like in PDSs and school–university partnerships? Open
Purpose The purpose of this article is to describe the important aspects and provide examples of Essential 5 in the Second Edition of the National Association for Professional Development Schools (NAPDS) Nine Essentials.
View article: Essential 4: a shared commitment to reflection, innovation and generative knowledge
Essential 4: a shared commitment to reflection, innovation and generative knowledge Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the key aspects and give examples of Essential 4 of the Second Edition of the National Association for Professional Development Schools (NAPDS) Nine Essentials.
View article: Explicating Essential Nine of the Second Edition of the NAPDS Nine Essentials
Explicating Essential Nine of the Second Edition of the NAPDS Nine Essentials Open
Purpose The purpose of this article is to describe the key aspects of and provide examples about Essential Nine of the Second Edition of the National Association for Professional Development Schools (NAPDS) Nine Essentials.
View article: Essential 6: articulated agreements – foundation and guidance for PDS work
Essential 6: articulated agreements – foundation and guidance for PDS work Open
Purpose The purpose of this article is to describe key aspects of and provide examples of Essential 6 of the Second Edition of the National Association for Professional Development Schools (NAPDS) Nine Essentials.
View article: Supervision and Teacher Wellness: An Essential Component for Improving Classroom Practice
Supervision and Teacher Wellness: An Essential Component for Improving Classroom Practice Open
Teaching has always been a stressful profession, but the additions of high-stakes accountability coupled with a global pandemic have increased stress to unprecedented levels. Thus, supervision must attend to teacher wellness to improve ins…
View article: Advancing Supervision in Clinically-Based Teacher Education
Advancing Supervision in Clinically-Based Teacher Education Open
For this special issue, Advancing Supervision in Clinically-Based Teacher Education, we invited conceptual papers, empirical research studies, descriptive narratives, and evaluations of supervision from faculty, emerging scholars, professi…
View article: The Influence of Teacher Leadership Capacity in a Professional Development School to Foster School Renewal
The Influence of Teacher Leadership Capacity in a Professional Development School to Foster School Renewal Open
This study draws upon complexity theory to share the results of a longitudinal, mixed methods study examining the role of teacher leadership capacity development in a professional development school (PDS) to support school renewal.The resu…
View article: Teacher Inquiry in Professional Development Schools: How it Makes a Difference
Teacher Inquiry in Professional Development Schools: How it Makes a Difference Open
In this article, the authors discuss the importance of the relationship between action research and teacher inquiry, within the context of professional development school settings. Considering the scope of the relationship, the authors pro…
View article: The Boundary Spanner in Professional Development Schools: In Search of Common Nomenclature
The Boundary Spanner in Professional Development Schools: In Search of Common Nomenclature Open
Teacher education is entering an exciting era for professional development schools (PDS). Recent reform efforts have called for increased school-university partnerships (AACTE, 2010; NCATE, 2010), which means that the PDS community may be …
View article: Making Muffins: Identifying Core Ingredients of School-University Partnerships
Making Muffins: Identifying Core Ingredients of School-University Partnerships Open
National calls for transforming teacher education are harmonious – schools and universities must collaborate to transform teacher preparation (American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), 2010; National Council for the A…