Modeled after a little known historical model and based on the research of Vanessa Siddle Walker, Living the Legacy of African American Education: A Model for University and School,describes a sustainable and authentic partnership between a university and its K-12 partners. Designed for school, district leaders, and college instructors this practical guide provides a narrative of how a group of graduate students, a professor and seven school partners planned, executed, and engaged K-12 partners in three major professional development opportunities. This book chronicles a partnership that engaged K-12 leaders in an authentic and mutually beneficial partnership. Designed to be instructive, this book can be used to plan partnerships as well as a serve as a check listto design, maintain, and refine similar partnerships. This book also provides valuable lessons learned at the end of each chapter that can be used as others form K12 partnerships.

Sheryl J. Croft is an Assistant Professor in the department of Educational Leadership at Kennesaw State University where she is also Coordinator of the Educational Doctorate (Ed.D.) program. She also is the Director of Teaching In the Urban South (TITUS) since its inception in 2011.Tiffany D. Pogue is an assistant professor of Teacher Education at Albany State University. Her research interests include Participatory Literacy Communities, Culturally Relevant Teaching, Hip Hop Based Education, and Community Engagement.Vanessa Siddle Walker is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Educational Studies at Emory University. Walker received her training in education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Preface-Vanessa Siddle Walker

Introduction: Building Blocks-Vanessa Siddle Walker

Chapter 1: Collaboration between Higher Education and Public School Educators-Sheryl J. Croft

Chapter 2: Safe Spaces and Summer Meetings-Sheryl J. Croft

Chapter 3: Creating TITUS Buy-In among Various Stakeholders-Tiffany D. Pogue and Amber Jones

Chapter 4: Focus on Problem-Solving and Deliverables-Brandi Hinnant-Crawford and Miyoshi Jeurgensen

Chapter 5: Professional Development and Community Engagement-Latrise Johnson

Chapter 6: The Challenges of Implementing a Historical Model in a Contemporary Setting-Sheryl J. Croft and Tiffany D. Pogue

Final Words

Appendix A: TITUS Fast Facts about Youth of Color in the United States and Georgia

Appendix B: Evaluation Report for TITUS Conference

Glossary

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Index