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LINK-INitiative Professional Development School Network
LINK-INitiative: Learning, Inquiring, Networking, and Knowing through INtegration, INnovation, and INduction
The DePaul (DP) University Professional Development Schools (PDS)
Network is a dynamic, innovative model of professional education engaging
DP university and public and Catholic school partners. The PDS network
aims to build strong, progressive educational sites that benefits professional
educators, teacher candidates and P-12 students.
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Professional development schools are innovative institutions formed
through partnerships between professional education programs and P-12
schools. Their mission is professional preparation of candidates, faculty
development, inquiry directed at the improvement of practice, and enhanced
student learning.
Professional development schools (PDSs) are real schools, often in challenging
settings,
which have been redesigned and restructured to support their complex
mission. PDSs
support professional and student learning through the use of an inquiry-oriented
approach
to teaching.
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standards for PDS from the NCATE website...
Authors Jane & Chris Kurtz Visit Professional Development Schools
Dr. Roxanne Owens, a DePaul professor and resident liaison for the LINK Initiative, organized for Jane Kurtz and Chris Kurtz, children's authors and sponsors of the non-profit Ethiopia Reads project to speak at DePaul on Thursday, October 25, 2007. The authors presented a seminar for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade children from neighborhood schools entitled "Writing is Power and Other Strange Truths About Books." Read
more...
Cohort Launch
Fall 2007 marks the launch of the first LINK-IN Professional Development
School Cohort of Teaching and Learning graduate students pursuing degrees
and licensure in elementary education. Read
more...