How can RPPs integrate youth-participatory action research, and why should they? This article explores how and why RPPs can elevate the role of youth to that of co-researchers to improve and transform education, how they are uniquely positioned to do so, and what this can look like in practice.
RPP Deep Dive
USING APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY TO STRENGTHEN RPPs
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.
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.
UNDERSTANDING THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF MIDDLE SCHOOL COUNSELORS IN PROVIDING COMPUTER SCIENCE OPPORTUNITIES TO RURAL STUDENTS: A RESEARCH-PRACTICE PARTNERSHIP’S JOURNEY TOWARD LEVERAGING THE EXPERTISE OF RPP TEAM MEMBERS
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.
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.
EQUITY-CENTERED AND VISION-ALIGNED RESEARCH: STRATEGIES OF A DISTRICT RESEARCH OFFICE TO BUILD BETTER RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS
How can RPPs can offer a path forward in research rooted in school needs and balanced inquiry? Two district research leaders share their perspectives and experiences, shining a spotlight on the meaning and value of RPP work from this vantage point.
DOES MONEY MATTER FOR THE PRODUCTION OF RELEVANT RESEARCH? INCENTIVIZING RESEARCHERS TO WORK ON RESEARCH RELEVANT TO PRACTICE, POLICY, AND COMMUNITIES
Can university grant-making programs help address the research-practice divide in education? An examination of three such programs designed to incentivize university researcher participation in RPP work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“WHY AM I ALWAYS BEING RESEARCHED?” AN APPLICATION TO RPPs, PART 2
“Can we effectively partner to get to the full truth if information about research options, methods, inputs, costs, benefits, and risks are not shared?” The NNERPP community applied this and related questions from Chicago Beyond’s guidebook “Why am I always being researched?” to the RPP context and shared thoughts and reflections.
