This article is a polyvocal narrative that explores how four participants-a teacher, professor, graduate student, and teacher in transition to being a graduate student-work together to reinvent more equitable roles in a school-university partnership. Equity among university and school participants is stressed as a necessary, although often overlooked, component in any cooperative initiative for democratic education. Each participant tells his or her own story of coming together to create a progressive space for collaboration.
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