Background Partnerships between schools and universities are increasingly advocated as a
way to bridge the research–practice gap in education. Empirical research has revealed a …

This paper reports on the results of a study in which the discourse within 75 professional
development school (PDS)-related publications was examined to determine where the …

This paper examines principals' descriptions of the implementation of an urban professional
development school (PDS) network through the lens of a distributed leadership framework …

This article addresses the challenges PDS partnerships face as they go to scale. Based on
Coburn's (2005) notions of scale, the article uses organizational theory to analyze data from …

Winner of 2019 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award and 2019
Critics Choice Book Award from AESA In response to growing concern in the 1980s about …

Purpose The National Association for Professional Development Schools (NAPDS)
recognizes that there is a tendency for the term “PDS”(Professional Development School) to …

This synthesis report describes a thorough analysis of primary professional development
school (PDS) research in an effort to reveal reasonable PDS outcome claims as well as the …

In the quest to answer questions about the definition of a PDS, this paper begins with an
examination of the past and current status of PDSs, including the origins and history of the …

Professional development schools (PDSs) have tremendous potential to improve
educational experiences for both students and teachers. However, PDSs struggle with the …

Nursing education in South Africa is continuously being influenced by significant changes in
all spheres of higher education. There is little doubt that most of these changes have a major …