Challenging the Status Quo: Reshaping the Culture and Practice of Preservice Mentoring Student teaching is a key component of teacher preparation but student teachers may not have access to effective mentors. In this future casting session, we share highlights from a study of how preservice mentors think about their work with student teachers and how they view various mentoring practices. The study challenges conventional forms of mentoring as a step toward disrupting inequitable clinical experiences.

• Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Brandeis University
• Sarah Kavanagh, University of Pennsylvania
• Kavita Matsko, Northwestern University
• Jamie Wallace, American Museum of Natural History

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Challenging the Status Quo: Reshaping the Culture and Practice of Preservice Mentoring

Student teaching is a key component of teacher preparation but student teachers may not have access to effective mentors. In this future casting session, we share highlights from a study of how preservice mentors think about their work with student teachers and how they view various mentoring practices. The study challenges conventional forms of mentoring as a step toward disrupting inequitable clinical experiences.

• Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Brandeis University


• Sarah Kavanagh, University of Pennsylvania


• Kavita Matsko, Northwestern University


• Jamie Wallace, American Museum of Natural History

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