Introduction:
Creating Collaborations, Connections, and Contexts
Suzanne SooHoo & Joel Colbert

Prospective Teachers’ Perceptions of the Value
of an Early Field Experience in a Laboratory Setting
Leah Wasburn-Moses, Tom Kopp, & Jill E. Hettersimer

Teacher Inquiry:
From Knowledge to Knowledges
Katherine L. Kiss & Jane S. Townsend

Cultivating Pre-Service Teachers
towards Culturally Relevant Literacy Practices
K. Dara Hill

The Impact of Teacher Preparation:
A Study of Alternative Certification
and Traditionally Prepared Teachers
in Their First Year of Teaching
Wayne M. Linek, Mary Beth Sampson, Leslie Haas,
Diane Sadler, Leeann Moore, & Millie C. Nylan

Crisscrossing the University and Public Schools Contexts
as Professional Development School Boundary Spanners
Joyce E. Many, Teresa R. Fisher,
Susan Ogletree, & Dee Taylor

It Might Just Take a Partnership
Audrey Amrein-Beardsley & Joshua H. Barnett

Inside Out and Inside In:
Rethinking Spelling in Inclusive Elementary Classrooms
Derek L. Anderson & N. Suzanne Standerford

Collaborative Clinical Practice:
An Alternative Field Experience
Amy Lynn Dee

Preservice Teachers Listen to Families
of Students with Disabilities
and Learn a Disability Studies Stance
Janet S. Sauer & Christi Kasa