Bridging the divide between the university and the high School: Yal as a community making tool

In this article, an adolescent literacy and English education professor and a local high school English
teacher describe the need to foster relationships together to build a better experience for secondary
students and teacher candidates. Over the course of two semesters, both authors examine what their
individual needs were, what steps were taken, and how programming was created for a fruitful
partnership between a teacher preparation program and the title 1 high school down the street.
Ultimately, both authors agreed that there was something missing in the separation of teacher
preparation and what happens in actual English classrooms, and this partnership was created to build
something better for all stakeholders involved