Grow Your Own Teachers: Grassroots Change for Teacher Education

by Brian D. Schultz

Grow Your Own Teachers describes the evolution of a local school reform movement in Chicago that now serves as a model for change in schools and teacher preparation programs across the country. Grounded in the grassroots organizing tradition, the Grow Your Own (GYO) teacher initiative involves collaboration between community-based organizations and colleges of education in preparing community members to teach for change in their local schools...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807751936
• ISBN13: 9780807751930
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.8"