Share Paper: Developing Public University/Public School Transformative Partnerships

  1. Cathie Norris, Univ of North Texas, United States
  2. Eliott Soloway, University of Michigan, United States
  3. Anne Tapp, Saginaw Valley State University, United States
Tuesday, October 26 5:00-5:30 PM ROOM 2

Abstract: The response of K-12 schools to the COVID disruption was remarkable! That said, the COVID disruption demonstrated that public K-12 schools don’t have the skills/expertise to truly employ the new technologies effectively. But, public universities do have those skills/expertise! In our presentation, we will describe the hand-in-glove, transformative partnerships that two Michigan public universities – University of Michigan and Saginaw Valley State University – established with a number of K-5 public schools in Michigan. Both groups learned; both groups benefitted. Now the challenge is to scale up those partnerships.