How can RPPs navigate the complexities of partnership work? The Institute for School Partnership examines Appreciative Inquiry as a valuable approach, sharing how the partnership has used Appreciative Inquiry to support improvement science projects, strengthen professional learning activities, and evaluate the health of the RPP.
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KEY MILESTONES FOR ESTABLISHING A RESEARCH-PRACTICE-PLATFORM PARTNERSHIP
The NYC Partnership for Math Equity explores what it means to establish and launch an RPP that includes an education technology partner –a research-practice-platform partnership or RPPP–, sharing lessons learned through framing provided by the Milestones Guide for emerging RPPs.
USING CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE AND EQUITABLE EVALUATION APPROACHES IN PARTNERSHIP WORK
How can RPPs use culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE) approaches in their work? Education Northwest spotlights the CREE framework and shares a real-world example of using the CREE approach in partnership 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.
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.
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.
ONE PARTNERSHIP’S EXPERIENCE IN SUPPORTING RPP LEARNING & PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE NNERPP ANNUAL FORUM
How can RPPs design partnership learning opportunities that bring together research- and practice side participants in new ways? The Madison Education Partnership shares their approach to partnership learning, which involved using the NNERPP Annual Forum this summer as an anchor for that learning.
INTRODUCING THE NNERPP RPP BROKERS HANDBOOK, V. 2
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. We introduce Version 2 of the RPP Brokers Handbook, which codifies the work of brokers in RPPs, thereby identifying the specific and essential role they play in enabling public scholarship and social impact.
DEVELOPING VALID MEASURES OF RPP EFFECTIVENESS: AN EVIDENCE-CENTERED DESIGN APPROACH
Caitlin C. Farrell outlines how a collaboration between the National Center for Research in Policy and Practice (NCRPP) and NNERPP is using Evidence-Centered Design to develop measures of RPP effectiveness.
MEASURING RPP HEALTH: INTRODUCING A NEW TOOL BASED ON THE FIVE DIMENSIONS OF RPP EFFECTIVENESS
Elizabeth Barkowski and Carrie Scholz introduce a new tool for partnerships to formatively assess and continuously improve RPP health.
HOW TO CREATE INCLUSIVE DATA VISUALIZATIONS
Negeen Aghassibake shares how we can be intentional about creating inclusive and transparent data visualizations that do not erase the identities of the people behind the data.
ONBOARDING NEW PARTNERSHIP MEMBERS? HERE ARE THREE SLIDES TO INCLUDE
We share guidance for the kinds of essential information you might consider including in your onboarding deck to welcome new partnership members, organized into three slides.
