Living the Legacy of African American Education: A Model for University and School Engagement

Modeled after a little known historical model and based on the research of Vanessa Siddle Walker, Living the Legacy of African American Education: A Model for University and School,describes a sustainable and authentic partnership between a university and its K-12 partners.Designed for school, district leaders, and college instructors this practical guide provides a narrative of how a group of graduate students, a professor and seven school partners planned, executed, and engaged K-12 partners in three major professional development opportunities. This book chroniclesa partnership that engaged K-12 leaders in an authentic and mutually beneficial partnership. Designed to be instructive, this book can be used to plan partnerships as well as a serve as a check list todesign, maintain, and refinesimilar partnerships.This book also provides valuable lessons learned at the end of each chapter that can be used as others form K–12 partnerships.