Exploring the Community Impact of Research-Practice Partnerships in Education

* Introduction. * Acknowledgments. * Part I: Research-Practice Partnerships For Leading And Learning. * Partnering for a Diverse K-12 Principal Preparation Pipeline, Jack Leonard and Ceronne B. Daly. * A School District and College Collaborate to Develop Career Ladders for Educators: Features, Impacts, and Research, Linda A. Catelli, Judith Marino, and Glen Eschbach. * Professional Learning Community Practices and Characteristics Supporting Teacher Candidate and Student Learning within Selected Professional Development Schools, Phillip J. Blacklock and Daphney L. Curry. * Part II: Research-Practice Partnerships At Scale. * Sustained Engagement Through a School-University Partnership, Virginia L. McLaughlin, Jan Rozzelle, and Jennifer L. Hindman. * Community-School -University Partnerships as Catalyzing Reform in Districts and Across the State: The University-Assisted Community Schools Project in Knoxville, Tennessee, D. Gavin Luter and Robert F. Kronick. * Part III: Research-Practice Partnerships In Specific Contexts. * Propensity Score Analysis for Examining the Effects of a District?Level Intervention: A Model for School-University Partnerships, Avery D. Newton and Laura M. O'Dwyer. * Action for Early Learning: A Research-Practice, Place?Based Partnership, Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo, Adena Klem, and Maria Walker. * Collaborative Partnerships Between Preservice and Inservice Teachers as a Driver for Professional Development, Matthew E. Vick and Nicholas F. Reichhoff.* A Research-Practice Partnership as the Lever for Increased Community Engagement: Developing a Community-Minded Survey Program in a Large Urban District, Tonya Wolford, Adrienne Reitano, Kirsten Lee Hill, and Laura M. Desimone. * Part IV: Of Borderlands And Boundary Spanners. * Building Bridges Not Walls: The Potential of International Partnerships on Educational Research and Practice, Sheri C. Hardee and Catherine Rosa. * The Identification, Influence, and Impact of Boundary Spanners Within Research-Practice Partnerships, Casey D. Mull and Katherine Rose Adams. * About the Contributors.