Edwidge Danticat’s powerful and haunting memoir, Brother I’m Dying, invites the reader to enter a poignant lyric braid where ideas overlap in complex patterns. Set against the backdrop of political unrest in Haiti, Danticat’s narrative weaves her family’s history across borders and beliefs, exploring the…

We first identified the frequency of participants' use for each of the five targets in the Targeted Field Observation Guide. We then analyzed the ways participants used the targets in their weekly Google Doc posts. The management target, which encouraged preservice teachers to consider many…

To strengthen and further inform our own pedagogy and practice we sought to collaborate across institutions. It offered us additional opportunities to examine our understanding, pedagogy, and practice through intentional inquiry, critical review, and examination of our own pedagogy and practice. In addition, the creation…

Pre-student teaching field placements are important learning experiences in which preservice teachers transition from theory to practice, and the purpose of these placements, described as “practice-based teacher education” (Ball & Cohen, 1999) is often similar across different institutions and teacher preparation programs. Specifically, these pre-student…