Insights, Challenges, and Lessons Learned from an Emerging University-Public School District Lab School Initiative

Maggie Struck & Mike Reynolds

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Agenda

• Background -- where we were
• Planning for transformation -- where we proposed to go
• Implementation
• Design Team
• Specific initiatives
• Guided clinicals
• Snelling Connection/developing literacies
• Obstacles
• Where we are headed

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Photo from HU Newspaper, The Oracle -- photo credit: Chloe McElmury. 12/7/17

Hamline to Hamline -- a longstanding collaboration

Designing futures -- our Bush grant

Could we reenvision the nature--and reach--of our partnership?�

• Design thinking -- K-16 education and teacher training
• Inquiry-based learning
• Systemic inequity
• Reciprocity

Initiatives I -- collaborative pedagogy

Initiatives II -- academic pairings

Obstacles

• Two large bureaucracies

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• Disruptions of individual practices

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• Ongoing economic challenges and constant staff turnover

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• And, oh yeah, a pandemic

Sustainable systemic change

• Center in Inquiry

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• People *and* positions matter -- advocates, but also infrastructure

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• Enlist (and empower) community

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• Documenting change and process -- narratives empower further action

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• Evaluation and assessment -- what does success look like?

Where we are headed

• STEM and Social Justice partnership

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• Restorative practice

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• Research -- the impact of guided clinicals; school outcomes

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• Collaborations extended to middle & high school

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Thanks to Principal Kristin Reilly and Professor Patty Born Selly

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Contacting us:

mstruck01@hamline.edu

mreynolds@hamline.edu

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