Describes a Texas program in which elementary and secondary school teachers switch positions with university professors. (FL)

Reports on one school-university partnership that used S. Covey's "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" as a framework for initiating and sustaining teacher-education reform in an elementary school. Discusses how the collaboration overcame a difficult start involving distrust of the university. Shows how the project illuminates three…

Describes the successes and difficulties of a university-high school learning and writing program in which students engaged in real-time electronic conferences, conducted e-mail exchanges, and took part in several other forms of collaborative learning that demanded a great deal of writing on topics related to course readings and lectures. (SR)

Describes a collaborative learning community called the Professional Development School Network in Social Studies and Global Education, in which university professors and social studies teachers from six school districts worked together to create a professional-development program and a certification program for teachers. Reflects on several…

Describes a cooperatively developed student teacher orientation program in the Morristown, Tennessee schools. This model is not a finished product in the form of a packaged orientation, but a process model providing for different types of school-student teacher-university communication and feedback to evolve the orientation system. (Author/SJL)

Describes DELTA (Design for Excellence: Linking Teaching and Achievement), a program that directs reform efforts toward teachers in greater Los Angeles. Notes the primary goal is to link public schools and higher education in a collaborative effort to reform three key areas: teacher preparation; support for new teachers; and ongoing, progressive…

An inclusion classroom is defined as one that is tasked with mainstreaming special education students into a population of general education students. In this brief article, the author, a high school mathematics teacher, shares his personal experiences in teaching in an inclusion classroom. A primary focus is his relationship with the special…

Considers the collaborative teaching experience of a university professor and a fourth grade teacher, discussing the experience from the professor's, teacher's, and children's perspectives. Highlights the challenges and benefits of collaboration. (MM)

Details the formation of the Eastern Washington University Department of Education Research and Editorial Group, the procedures it employs, and the rationale for its application to research, writing, editing, and publication tasks. (FL)

Since 1978, the University of Washington has offered two of its freshman writing courses at Sequim High School, for advanced students wishing to earn college credit. The author discusses program's operations, advantages, and disadvantages, and compares it to the Advanced Placement Program. (SJL)

Describes how Old Dominion University and the Chesapeake, Virginia, school system have cooperatively revived the "Chatauqua" model as a way of providing on-site inservice teacher education. (SJL)

Reports on high schools' efforts to break the academic failure cycle and prevent drop-outs. Describes and reports the outcomes of the peer tutoring/mentoring pilot program developed as part of a major collaborative effort between the City University of New York and the New York City Board of Education. (JK)

Rejects the notion that writing and teaching must be created in colleges and then flow down to high schools. Uses the South Basin Writing Project as a model for change, showing how knowledge about writing and teaching can be generated by practitioners. Notes how the forces of tradition and expediency often prevent this knowledge from resulting in…

Describes the collaboration between a university and an elementary school to establish a writing center at the elementary school, staffed by university students (preservice teachers). Describes the crucial role of ongoing formative assessment activity for both elementary students and the university preservice teachers. (SR)

Describes Project Enable involving approximately 30 middle school students at risk for dropping out of school and 12 former military men earning teacher certification. Discusses the teacher candidates, essentials of at-risk programs, lessons learned from Project Enable, benefits for participants, and suggestions for working with learners at-risk…