Basic Interior 2 (Components)

How can RPPs understand and leverage the role and expertise different partners contribute, especially in the partnership’s early years? The Secure and Upgrade Computer Science in Classrooms through an Ecosystem with Scalability & Sustainability (SUCCESS) RPP shares its journey of understanding the crucial role middle school counselors play in…

How can RPPs create a culture of collaboration and build relationships in the early years? The ReadUp partnership shares insights and experiences from its early years of working together to produce and use research that reduces disparities in students’ reading achievement.

Historically marginalized children, particularly those from underserved communities, often have limited access to enriching environments within their neighborhoods. An RPP between the Orange County Educational Advancement Network (OCEAN) and the Santa Ana Early Learning Initiative (SAELI) works to transform everyday locations into vibrant spaces for rich STEM learning –…

Civic imagination is defined as a way of shaping a vision for the future through the uniquely human capacity for storytelling. Digital Promise shares how civic imagination not only played a vital role in their RPP work seeking to expand rural students’ understanding of computational thinking, but how its…

Are you engaging in collaborative education research endeavors and/or participating in RPP brokering activities? We share about two recently published resources that you might want to use in your RPP learning.

Brokers in RPPs are an essential component for helping researchers and practitioners work together on research that supports improvements in education, serving as the bridge between the research and practice communities within partnerships. Despite this critical connector role, brokers are often undervalued or not given the importance they deserve….

David Hersh shares how new improvement efforts with state- and district-level partners aim to help make continuous improvement an embedded practice rather than an add-on.

David Hersh shares outcomes of improvement efforts from three continuous improvement networks and takeaways from piloting and testing during a pandemic year.

Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, Larry Simmons, and Christine Bell describe how their RPP actively partners with the community from conception to evaluation through community-based participatory action research, and discuss the unique perspective and important contributions the community brings to RPP work.

With partnerships often advocating for and working towards supporting evidence-based decision-making, Norma Ming highlights the need for a better understanding of ‘research use capacity’ and the full scope of roles, processes, and evidence types involved in practitioners’ effective use and generation of evidence.

As partnerships increasingly ponder the specific roles that might be essential to the success of RPPs, Carrie Conaway, Erin O’Hara, and Jessica Vasan share key insights on their experiences serving as brokers, or boundary spanners, in RPPs.