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Sampling and Population
Extreme Case Study
A specific case study has been selected because of its extreme or unique
attributes. This particular partnership was chosen because of its unique structure and
potential for transforming schools. It also provided an opportunity to observe a
partnership between two community-based organizations with a history of
involvement in the transformation of urban schools, a high school that elected to
enter an innovation unit geared towards school transformation of a large urban
school district, and a top tier private university with a commitment to urban
education transformation of a large urban school district. The members involved
were Prep High School, Westside University, Grizzly United and City Connections,
all of which formed the partnership called the United Education Action Team. The
partnership is currently in its third year of operation, and the study will examine the
extent to which the university and community-based organizations were working as
partners beyond the first year of the partnership’s operation within the local school
site to promote academic achievement. This study is a follow-up to the research
conducted by a thematic dissertation group of students in the University of Southern
California’s Rossier School of Education regarding the partnership’s progress in one
year toward co-constructing a partnership capable of transforming an urban high
school. This study examined indicators of the partnership’s progress toward creating
a co-constructed model of partnership capable of transforming the same high school.
The study also focused on the degree to which the partnership facilitates parental
Object Description
| Title | Co-constructing community, school and university partnerships for urban school transformation: Year two |
| Author | Woodyard, Savina M. |
| Author email | SavinaW@aol.com; savinaw@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-22 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-04-19 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Rousseau, Sylvia G. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Stowe, Kathy Huisong Marsh, David D. |
| Abstract | Community-school-university partnerships represent a new model of urban education reform that incorporates the overlapping spheres of influence in the transformation process. Co-constructed relationships between communities, schools and universities have the potential reshape organizational hierarchy and enable all partners to develop a new cultural model capable of transforming K-12 urban schools. This study the second and third year of one co-constructed community-school-university partnership that attempted to transform the cultural model of one urban high school.; The aim of this study is to identify and analyze the extent to which a community-school-university partnership is able to sustain elements of co-construction and other ongoing processes that are beneficial to the partnership. Also, the study will identify the persistent barriers to co-constructions and effective strategies to overcome those barriers within a community-school-university partnership. This study expands on the research conducted during the first year of the partnership’s operation and will offer insight as to the sustainability of the co-constructed processes between the community-school-university partnership. This study will also identify the methods in which the community-school-university partnership can develop a new cultural model for parental engagement in the interest of school transformation. |
| Keyword | partnership; co-construction; urban school; transformation; parental engagement |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 2000/2010 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3759 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Woodyard, Savina M. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Woodyard-4509 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume62/etd-Woodyard-4509.pdf |
Description
| Title | Page 83 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 74 Sampling and Population Extreme Case Study A specific case study has been selected because of its extreme or unique attributes. This particular partnership was chosen because of its unique structure and potential for transforming schools. It also provided an opportunity to observe a partnership between two community-based organizations with a history of involvement in the transformation of urban schools, a high school that elected to enter an innovation unit geared towards school transformation of a large urban school district, and a top tier private university with a commitment to urban education transformation of a large urban school district. The members involved were Prep High School, Westside University, Grizzly United and City Connections, all of which formed the partnership called the United Education Action Team. The partnership is currently in its third year of operation, and the study will examine the extent to which the university and community-based organizations were working as partners beyond the first year of the partnership’s operation within the local school site to promote academic achievement. This study is a follow-up to the research conducted by a thematic dissertation group of students in the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education regarding the partnership’s progress in one year toward co-constructing a partnership capable of transforming an urban high school. This study examined indicators of the partnership’s progress toward creating a co-constructed model of partnership capable of transforming the same high school. The study also focused on the degree to which the partnership facilitates parental |
