ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author summarizes key lessons and challenges, intending to draw from their particular experience to speak to more universal questions and concerns. He deals with a broad discussion of the journey of University–school partnership, conceptualizes as traveling from a cooperative reciprocal relationship to a cross-institutional community. One way to view partnership is as a cooperative institutional arrangement with fairly well-defined commitments and goals. Working within this framework, partners may stretch their typical ways of thinking and acting, but the partnership is characterized more by a controlled giving and getting than by new collaborative ways of learning and relating. The author addresses themes of institutional capacity, equity, transition, and sustainability. He considers the journey of new teacher learning and the attendant challenges of constructing a cohesive pedagogy and coherent progression of activity in support of practice centered on students and their learning, in their actual context.
