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Partnerships

• Professional Development Schools Project
  A collaboration between Temple University and the School District of Philadelphia to improve education in the city on all levels. In the Professional Development Schools (PDS) Project, educators work collaboratively to provide the clinical settings necessary for new models of training preservice teachers and counselors, to provide life-long learning for seasoned teachers and faculty, to offer enrichment activities for students in grades K-12, and to provide avenues for involving community members in the education process.
• School and Preservice Program Quality Survey
  This is a FREE online survey that you can use to assess school and preservice program "quality of life in the workplace." It was developed by the National Institute for Community Innovations based on work from Hawaii.
• School-Community-University Partnerships: Effectively Integrating Community Building and Education Reform
  Paper presented to Conference on Connecting Community Building and Education Reform: Effective School, Community, University Partnerships. The autor explains why universities are an appropriate and central partner to help develop and sustain better schools and communities.
• Southern University At New Orleans And New Orleans Public School Partnership
  A collaborative program to implement the Comer School Development Program and enhance teacher preparation programs. In 1990, Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) and the New Orleans Public Schools (NOPS) formed a partnership, in conjunction with the Yale Child Study Center and the Rockefeller Foundation, to develop a viable, collaborative and cooperative project to replicate the School Development Program (Comer Process).
• Teachers for Chicago
  Teachers for Chicago. Promising Practices.
• Teaching, Technology And Restructuring Partnership (T2ARP)
  A partnership program between the San Diego State University, School of Education and Department of Educational Technology, and O'Farrell Community School, a charter school within the San Diego Unified School District to prepare teachers for middle school.
• The National Center on Public Education and Social Policy
  � The National Center on Public Education and Social Policy (NCPE) at the University of Rhode Island is dedicated to the continuous improvement of educational and community settings. For more than twenty years our work has provided information for decision-making to promote the growth and healthy development of all children.