Background/Context: Literatures on college-going cultures offer patterns and lists of practices that promote schoolwide attention to college-going for nondominant youth, often with organization-level analyses of policies and procedures. Other literature identifies promising practices and challenges to conventional instruction, often examining…

This paper explores a model of professional development that theoretically extends to new teachers a bridge from inquiry-oriented preparation into the first years of teaching. Inquiry-oriented teacher education habituates novice teachers into professional habits of heart and mind that are difficult to sustain given the reigning modes of…

Nine San Francisco (California) second-year teachers who had conducted structured weekly meetings during their preservice program continue to meet monthly with two Stanford University researchers. At these meetings they discuss emerging values, philosophies, and pedagogical practice. The meetings involve formal check-in times for individuals to…