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 – by centering the voices, experiences, and expertise of parents in the co-design of these learning environments.
Community
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.
THE IMPORTANCE OF EXPANDING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS WITH COMMUNITY
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.
