PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice , Open Access

Pivoting a PDS program to working with employed interns: a case study in continuing organizational change

Angelo Joseph Letizia

The methods and procedures in which teachers are trained and supported are rapidly changing. While the COVID-19 pandemic undoubtedly disrupted education and exacerbated a growing…

Advocacy is contagious: the PDS effect

Jennifer Cárdenas

This article, written by a multilingual learner program (MLP) specialist, provides a first-hand account of how a professional development school (PDS) (school–university…

The Smart Cookie Project

Kerry Cormier, Trudi Figueroa

This practitioner-focused article highlights a collaborative, school-wide project at a PDS that showcased elementary students’ strengths and talents. Based on the children’s book…

Taking the LEAP: a district-university partnership to address shortages in special education

Laura Hedin, Lydia Gerzel-Short, Lisa Liberty, Jason Pope

District-university partners increasingly rely on “grow-your-own” licensure programs to address teacher shortages. Because vacancies in special education represent a chronic…

Toward teacher residency program implementation: navigating the complexities

Doreen L. Mazzye, Joan Gujarati

Research in this field is becoming increasingly clear that a teacher residency program (TRP) has a strong potential for developing effective teachers in a teacher preparation…

Emphasizing the professional in PDS

Elizabeth A. Skinner

This article describes an effort to ease the tension between boundary spanning roles for interns participating in a yearlong Professional Development School (PDS) program. In…

Father involvement in a comprehensive elementary school: building capacity and understanding

Amy K. Noggle, Sara D. Hooks

As part of a larger grant-funded project, a professional development (PD) series was conducted within the framework of a school–university partnership to improve teachers’…