Articles

• Faculty Collaboration at Saint Xavier University: Faculty Collaboration at Saint Xavier University: Involving Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty in Teacher Preparation
  Michael Hardy, Maureen Spelman, Liang Zhao, Pamela Hofbauer, and Claudia Becker
  An interdisciplinary team of arts and sciences and teacher education faculty review the literature on instructional best practices in preparing pre-service teacher candidates and develop a process model enabling faculty from the two areas to collaborative effectively in implementing their action research findings.
• Arts and Science and Teacher Education Faculty Collaborations at Lake Forest College
  Shelley Sherman, Dawn Abt-Perkins, Steve Galovich, and Elizabeth W Fischer
  Chemistry, mathematics, and teacher education faculty members developed questions to be answered through action research to improve their preparation of pre-service candidates and to participate effectively through the Linking Learning Communities project (LLC), a collaboration with Waukegan public school teachers and others using research-based practices to improve student learning in Waukegan.
• Applying Action Research in a Field-based Master's Program to Improve Teaching and Learning in Rural and Urban High-Need Schools
  Mary Ball Brant and Ellen Suzanne Lee
  Faculty members in the Saint Xavier University field-based Master of Arts in Teaching and Leadership program direct graduate students who are full-time teachers in action research projects designed to improve the teachers' practice in their high-need school classrooms. The teacher researchers selected vocabulary knowledge and homework completion as the subjects of their investigations.
• Developing a Higher Quality Field Experience in High-Need Schools for Candidates Seeking Secondary Certification
  Darlene Hoffman, Ray Boehmer, Judy Parrish, Tim Kovalcik, and Malcolm W. Moore
  Millikin University arts and science and teacher education faculty members collaborated in a research-based investigation with Thomas Jefferson Middle School to improve the pre-student teaching experience of Millikin secondary education candidates.
• Promoting Social Justice in High-Need Schools
  Jeanne White, Daniel Jares, Brian Kahn, Michael Lindberg, and David Victor
  Teacher education and arts and sciences faculty members from a variety of disciplines at Elmhurst College worked together to develop research-based curricula around the theme of social justice, as a means to strengthen the preparation of pre-service candidates for teaching in high-need schools.

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Jan Fitzsimmons
In this issue of Success in High-Need Schools, the authors identify and describe a menu of action research possibilities that provide templates for both college professors and classroom teachers who are probing for solutions to answer some tough questions. How do we prepare teachers to close the achievement gap? How do we prepare learners who will compete competently in a 21st century global society?

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