Impacting Teacher Residencies Through Collaborative Partnerships: A Case Study
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https://doi.org/10.59719/txep.v9i1.74Keywords:
transformation, partnerships, case study, residencyAbstract
As the teacher shortage impacts school districts across the nation, building and strengthening the teacher pipeline becomes critical. The existence and maintenance of strong partnerships between stakeholders is a key component of the teacher pipeline issue. This self-study research centered around an educator preparation program (EPP) and two local school districts as the EPP transitioned from traditional one-semester student teaching to two-semesters of residency. The transformation provided a springboard to investigate the status of partnerships as well as to develop a tool, Assessing Partnership Transformation (APT) Rubric, to continue the partnership dialogue. Using five guiding principles from Butcher, Bezzina, and Moran’s (2010) as a foundation, the investigators developed the Assessing Partnership Transformation (APT) Rubric. This study describes the development of the APT Rubric tool and the results gathered by the EPP during the transformation of partnerships. Additionally, implications for using the APT in the transformation of other partnerships are discussed.
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