DOCUMENT RESUME ED 481 274 SP 041 738 AUTHOR Johnston, Marilyn, Ed.; Brosnan, Patti, Ed.; Cramer, Don, Ed.; Dove, Tim, Ed. TITLE Collaborative Reform and Other Improbable Dreams: The Challenges of Professional Development Schools. SUNY Series, Teacher Preparation and Development. INSTITUTION State Univ. of New York, Albany. ISBN ISBN-0-7914-4466-X PUB DATE 2000-00-00 NOTE 295p. AVAILABLE FROM State University of New York Press, c/o CUP Services, Box 6525, Ithaca, NY 14851 (hardcover: ISBN-0-7914-4465-1, $25.50; paperback: ISBN-0-7914-4466-X, $24.95). Tel: 800-666- 2211 (Toll Free); Fax: 800-688-2877 (Toll Free); Web site: http://www.sunypress.edu. PUB TYPE Books (010) Collected Works General (020) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF01/PC12 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Administrator Role; *College School Cooperation; Educational Change; Educational Technology; Elementary Secondary Education; Global Education; Higher Education; Language Teachers; *Partnerships in Education; Preservice Teacher Education; Principals; *Professional Development Schools; Social Studies; Special Education; Student Teaching; Teacher Role; Urban Schools IDENTIFIERS *Ohio State University ABSTRACT This collection of papers examines a 10-year process of teacher education reform at Ohio State University, describing 13 Professional Development Schools (PDSs) . After "Introduction: Context, Challenges, and Consequences: PDSs in the Making" (Marilyn Johnston), there are 16 papers in four parts. Part 1, "Contextualizing PDS Work and Roles," includes (1) "Too Valuable to be Rejected, Too Different to be Embraced: A Critical Review of School/University Collaboration" (Cynthia Dickens); (2) "A Clinical Educator: Redefining a Teacher's Role" (Rhonda Dailey-Dickinson); and (3) "The Missing Voice of the Principal in School/University Collaboration" (Don Cramer and Marilyn Johnston). Part 2, "Elementary and Middle School PDSs," includes (4) "LEADS: An Evolving Program" (Patricia Enciso, Becky Kirschner, Theresa Rogers, and Barbara Seidl); (5) "Small Beginnings to a Collective Takeover: Collaboration, Integration, and Change in Our PDS" (Francee Eldredge, Kathleen Ibom, Marilyn Johnston, Lisa Maloney, and Mike Thomas); and (6) "Middle School PDS: Moving beyond the Canvas" (Patti Brosnan, Diana Erchick, and Holly Thornton) . Part 3 "Secondary PDSs," includes (7) "Afternoon the Honeymoon is Over: What Seven Years of Collaboration Have Taught Us about School/University Collaboration in Social Studies and Global Education" (Sue Chase and Merry Merryfield); (8) "Perspectives on Personal Professional Development" (Steven L. Miller, Stanley Ray, Tim Dove, and Todd Kenreich); (9) "Students Learn within and beyond the Walls: A Secondary PDS" (Barbara Levak, Anna Soter, and Dan Hoffman); (10) "The Growing of a School/University Partnership and the Preparation of Teachers for the Urban Context" (Beth Carnate, George Newell, Steven E. Hoffman, and Rachel Moots); and (11) "Project Learn: Closing the Gap" (Barbara Thomson, Eugenie Maxwell, Lizbeth Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.