School/University Partnerships and Selection Process Redesign Team
Co-Chairs: Dr. Jenny Tripses, Bradley University
Dr. Kathleen Brown, IERC/SIUE
The charge of the School/University Partnerships and Selection Process Redesign Team is to develop draft criteria for school/university partnerships as part of the new approval criteria for principal preparation programs. Local school districts, most particularly the students, families, teachers and other school staff in those districts, bear the most important consequences of school leader preparation programs. Recommended criteria should include the inclusion of districts to co-design, co-implement, and co-assess new principal preparation programs. Criteria must meet the revised state standards, help respond to the leadership needs of school districts throughout the entire state, and support the continuum of principal development from preservice through distinguished principal status. Recommendations from this redesign team must also consider other possible organizations qualified to contribute to these programs.
Resources
- Preparing Principals for High-Need Rural Schools:
A Central Office Perspective about Collaborative
Efforts to Transform School Leadership
- The Organizational Economics of Interagency Collaboration -- Chapter 4 by Patrick F. Galvin from Restructuring Schools for Collaboration: Processes and Pitfalls, 1998
- The Promises and Pitfalls of Collaboration: Synthesizing Dilemmas -- Chapter 10 by Diana G. Pounder from Restructuring Schools for Collaboration: Processes and Pitfalls, 1998
- The Ongoing War for the Soul of School Administration -- Chapter by Theodore J. Kowalski from Better Leaders for America’s Schools: Perspectives on the Manifesto, 2004
- Toward the Development of School and University Partnerships Based Upon Mutual Benefit and Respect - By Pedro A. Noguera, published in In Motion Magazine July 9, 1998.
- Pitfalls of Partnerships-University Partnerships - by Michael W. Ledoux and Nadine McHenry, published by The Clearing House, 2008
Meeting Materials:
- Minutes from the September 29, 2008 meeting
- Minutes from the October 27, 2008 meeting
- Minutes from the November 24, 2008 meeting
