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This book presents a range of evidence-based analyses focused on the role of contextual factors on urban teacher learning. Part I introduces the reader to the conceptual and empirical literature on urban teacher learning. Part II shares eight research studies that examine how, what, and why urban teachers learn in the form of rich longitudinal studies. Part III analyzes the ways federal, state, and local policies affect urban teacher learning and highlights the synergistic relationship between urban teacher learning and context. What makes this collection powerful is not only that it moves research front and center in discussions of urban teacher learning, but also that it recognizes the importance of learning over time and the way urban schools’ contexts and conditions enable and constrain teacher learning.
Foreword; J. Amos Hatch.
Acknowledgments.
Part I. Theories of Urban Teacher Learning.
Chapter 1. Why Research on Urban Teacher Learning Matters: An Introduction; Andrea J. Stairs and Kelly A. Donnell.
Chapter 2. Urban Teacher Learning: A Review of Related Literature; Alyssa Hadley Dunn, Kelly A. Donnell, and Andrea J. Stairs.
Part II. Research on Urban Teacher Learning.
Chapter 3. We Know You're Black at Heart: A Self-Study of a White, Urban High School Teacher; Alyssa Hadley Dunn.
Chapter 4. Becoming an Urban Teacher in a Professional Development School: A View from Preparation to Practice; Andrea J. Stairs.
Chapter 5. Navigating the First Year: The Experiences of Alternatively Certified Urban Teachers; Katie Tricarico and Diane Yendol-Hoppey.
Chapter 6. The Impact of Teacher Preparation for High-Need Schools; Dorene Ross, Stephanie Dodman, and Vicki Vescio.
Chapter 7. Connecting Teaching and Learning: A Comparison of First- and Second-Year Urban Teachers; Jennifer Mueller, Debra Wisneski, and Nancy File.
Chapter 8. Making the Transition from Preservice to Inservice Teaching: Critical Literacy in an Urban Elementary School; Wendy Meller.
Chapter 9. Preparing Students for the Test is not Necessarily Preparing Them to be Good Writers: A Beginning Urban Teacher's Dilemma; Laura Pardo.
Chapter 10. A Grounded Theory of the Conditions and Resources in Learning About Urban Teaching; Kelly A. Donnell.
Part III. Impact of Policy on Urban Teacher Learning.
Chapter 11. Professionalism > Politics + Policy + Pedagogy: The Power of Professionalism; Audrey A. Friedman and Frank Daniello.
Conclusion: Developing Synergy Between Learning and Context; Kelly A. Donnell and Andrea J. Stairs.