Professional Development Schools

My experiences with school-university partnerships began over 15 years ago, when as a principal and then Director/Superintendent of a University Laboratory School, I found myself living in two worlds--one as a university employee and department chair within the College of Education, and the other as an educational administrator in a K-12 school system. I believe this experience has given me a unique perspective and an ability to understand and operate in both cultures with ease. I see the strengths and weaknesses of them both, and I often find myself exhilarated by the possibilities I see for establishing Professional Development School (PDS) relationships between them. Yet I also frequently feel frustrated by the seemingly overwhelming barriers that keep us from achieving the kind of interdependence that would renew and enhance our individual capacity to educate and the joint capacity of our profession to succeed in its multiple roles and tasks. I am presently an Associate Professor in Educational Leadership and Director of the Truman Pierce Institute at Auburn University. My role as director of the Institute involves facilitating the creation of PDS relation

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