How can we support practice-side leaders in participating in and presenting at conferences that are often designed with only academic researchers in mind? This article explores the value, learning opportunities, and some logistical considerations of such efforts.
Sharing Research
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.
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.
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.
ARE COMMUNICATIONS, DISSEMINATION, AND ENGAGEMENT THE SAME THING? HOW RPPs DISTINGUISH AMONG THESE
The words “communication,” “dissemination,” and “engagement” are often used to describe the collection of strategies aimed at supporting an RPP’s efforts to share its work with various constituent groups. We explore what these words mean to various RPP-ers and how they are conceptualizing and operationalizing these words with respect to their RPPs.
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.
VISUALIZING DATA FOR MEANINGFUL IMPACT ON DECISION MAKING
We share three main guidelines for creating effective data visualizations that can meaningfully impact decision making, based on a presentation from Anneli Joplin during NNERPP’s annual conference this summer.
DEVELOPING BRIEFS THAT BRIDGE THE GAP IN UNDERSTANDING AMONG RESEARCHERS AND PRACTITIONERS / POLICYMAKERS
To effectively engage multiple audiences with research findings and implications, an initial conversation with the researcher, structured around the key takeaways that policymakers or practitioners should understand from a particular study, can be a crucial first step towards developing a nontechnical research brief, write Jessica Holter and Jeff Archer, sharing their partnership’s process.
