The inquiryHub partnership, a design-based RPP, is co-developing high school instructional materials for biology, chemistry, and physics. What are students’ experiences of the curriculum, and how do they vary by race/ethnicity and by gender? How do teachers judge and experience the materials? iHub gives a behind-the-scenes look at partnership research exploring these questions by field testing curriculum materials.
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CENTERING COMMUNITY VOICE IN RPP WORK THROUGH CIVIC IMAGINATION AND STORYTELLING
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 principles may also play out in other RPPs as a way to help center the voices of practice-side participants.
COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION RESEARCH and RPP BROKERING: SPOTLIGHT ON TWO RECENT RESOURCES FOR THOSE ENGAGING IN CER and RPPs
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.
HOW HAS THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS’ COMPUTER SCIENCE GRADUATION REQUIREMENT IMPACTED STUDENTS?
In 2016, Chicago Public Schools became the first school district in the nation to enact a high school computer science graduation requirement. How did it impact student access and outcomes? The Chicago Alliance for Equity in Computer Science (CAFÉCS) gives a behind-the-scenes look at partnership research exploring this question.
DO RESEARCH-PRACTICE PARTNERSHIPS DO ‘POLICY’? HOW RPPs ENGAGE IN AND THINK ABOUT POLICY-RELATED WORK
“I don’t think research-practice partnerships (RPPs) do any policy work since the ‘P’ in RPP stands for ‘practice’ and not ‘policy’.”
This is an assumption we have seen surface, yet at the same time, from what we know, a sizable majority of RPPs actually engage heavily in policy-related work. In this article, we invite our membership to reflect with us and explore what the “practice” in “research-practice partnership” really refers to.
WHAT YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT STARTING AN RPP
What are the essentials of establishing an RPP? A recent study invited RPP leaders from various contexts to share their insights. Seven things to know about starting and maintaining an RPP emerged from their responses.
CALL TO ACTION: RESTRUCTURING TRADITIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCES TO PROMOTE DIGNITY-AFFIRMING SPACES
A problematic encounter during a conference poster presentation on disrupting power structures in RPPs inspired this op-ed, which calls for a more critically conscious approach to structuring research conferences.
INTEGRATING COMPUTER SCIENCE LEARNING IN RURAL CLASSROOMS: FROM BARRIERS TO OPPORTUNITIES
How can rural K-8 educators be supported in integrating computer science into math and science instruction? The STEM Workforce Ready 2030 RPP gives a behind-the-scenes look at partnership research on barriers to integrating computer science in the classroom – and how these barriers can become opportunities.
PRE-KINDERGARTEN TEACHER WELL-BEING IN RURAL WEST TEXAS
How are pre-k teachers doing emotionally and mentally, in particular in light of the added challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic? Paso del Norte Partnership for Education Research shares the why, how, what, and now what of partnership research examining pre-K teacher stress.
WRITING AND RESEARCHING ABOUT RPPs: AN INVITATION TO REFLECT
How are RPPs currently researched and written about, and how might we need to challenge some of these trends to more accurately reflect the disruptive goals of RPPs and the uniqueness of a given partnership? We invite the NNERPP community to critically reflect on how we write about RPPs.
“WHY AM I ALWAYS BEING RESEARCHED?” AN APPLICATION TO RPPs, PART 2
“Can we effectively partner to get to the full truth if information about research options, methods, inputs, costs, benefits, and risks are not shared?” The NNERPP community applied this and related questions from Chicago Beyond’s guidebook “Why am I always being researched?” to the RPP context and shared thoughts and reflections.
INTRODUCING THE MILESTONES GUIDE FOR EMERGING RPPs
What are the essential milestones new RPPs might work towards in their first year? We share a new tool designed to support emerging RPP teams in their first year in navigating and prioritizing suggested first-year milestones and stumbling blocks.
