Professional development schools provide a rich context in which universities and schools may collaborate on renewal, reform, and restructuring. The process, however, is unique to each partnership and appears characterized in the literature by more questions than answers. This article uses the narrative form to relate the authors' personal experiences in a newly formed professional development school through discussion of the broker capacity, reinvention of teacher education and the development of a culture of professionalism.
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