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 providing computer science learning to rural students.
Capacity Building
CHANGING THE CULTURE: FIVE STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING BRIDGES IN RESEARCH-PRACTICE PARTNERSHIPS IN THE EARLY YEARS
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.
TESTING THEORIES OF INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING
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.
WHAT ARE THE DIMENSIONS OF DISTRICT CAPACITY THAT ENABLE EFFECTIVE EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING?
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.
