How can RPPs working in the same region leverage their collective impact on state education policy? An account of NNERPP’s recent launch of a regional subnetwork and reflections from the subnetwork’s first in-person meeting.
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ENSURING EVERY STUDENT IS KNOWN: HOW AN RPP’S RAPID RESPONSE STUDY PROVIDED QUICK ANSWERS TO GUIDE PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION AT SCALE
A school district needed quick answers to guide the implementation at scale of its program to connect students with caring adults. By launching a “rapid response studies” strand of work, the Nashville Partnership for Educational Equity Research could help.
CONNECTING WITH STUDENTS AND FAMILIES IN CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT EFFORTS
How can those engaged in improvement work elevate student and family voice? Proving Ground shares recent efforts around engaging families and involving students in continuous improvement work.
INDICATORS OF RPP HEALTH AND EFFECTIVENESS: INTRODUCING AN UPDATED FRAMEWORK
What is important to attend to when considering RPP effectiveness? What might RPPs strive towards in their work together? An overview of a just-released updated framework for conceptualizing RPP health and effectiveness.
PROMISING PRACTICES FOR COLLABORATIVE WRITING IN RESEARCH-PRACTICE PARTNERSHIP
How can RPP participants in various roles and from diverse institutional backgrounds collaboratively write a journal article? An account of how researchers, teacher-practitioners, and evaluators merged their varied experiences and a shared vision in a collaborative writing process.
STORIES OF RPP IMPACT: SIX RESEARCH VIGNETTES
What does authentic RPP work look like? How does RPP research make an impact in the real world? We share six stories of RPP research and impact, as told by partnerships within NNERPP from various settings and contexts, to get at answering these questions.
LEARNING TO CO-DESIGN INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR SCALE AND SPREAD
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.
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.
