PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice: Volume 19 Issue 1 , Open Access

Editorial: Editors' introduction

Elizabeth Currin, Jennifer D. Morrison

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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’…

Thank you, Dr Cooper

Melissa P. Donham