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Listen to conversations from folks engaged in research practice partnerships. Here, they discuss their challenges, successes, and how RPP’s are addressing issues of equity in education.
Learn more about improvement science projects.
Learn more about Dr. Yurkofsky's approach to partnerships.
Learn more about Radford's Ed.D. program.
SEASON THREE
Improving America's Schools Together
Improving America’s Schools Together: How District-University Partnerships and Continuous Improvement Can Transform Education is the first definitive text on continuous improvement in school district-university partnerships, covering improvement methods, theory, research, and real cases across the United States with practical improvement tools that can be adapted to any setting. Through an array of in-depth stories, this book demonstrates how improvement science—as a shared method—can help universities, districts, and schools foster leaders and educators and enhance students’ learning and opportunities.
Carnegie Foundation
Carnegie has further developed and championed a science of improvement to help educators and systems get better at getting better, and to enable all students to thrive. Improvement science puts real problems of practice at the center, and acknowledges the role systems play in determining outcomes. It respects and integrates the knowledge of educators, families, and students – recognizing they are the central actors in any successful effort to improve teaching and learning. And it activates the agency of all stakeholders to work together, guided by inquiry and evidence, to improve outcomes reliably and at scale. Through testing innovations, refining, and testing them again, improvers transform systems and make progress on the most persistent challenges in education.
The Institute for School Partnership (ISP) is a center at Washington University in St. Louis focused on achieving equity in K-12 education. The ISP’s mission is to advance equitable quality education through meaningful collaboration with schools and districts.
We envision a St. Louis region where all students have equitable learning opportunities; where educators are valued, working collaboratively and supported to create classroom communities that are places where deeper learning and loving growth are possible. We aim to transform schools into equitable places that empower all students to think critically, problem-solve creatively, and engage with the world’s challenges and possibilities.
The ISP has a 40-year history in the St. Louis region and provides professional learning, curriculum materials, and instructional infrastructure.
In 2023, more than 5,000 educators from 344 schools across 67 districts, charter networks and 19 private school sites participated in one or more ISP programs.
SEASON TWO
SEASON ONE
Episodes 1-3: Links to learn more.
Learn more about Scratch Encore
Learn more about Participatory Design:
Coenraad, M., Palmer, J., Eatinger, D., Weintrop, D. & Franklin, D. (2022) Using Participatory Design to Integrate Stakeholder Voices in the Creation of a Culturally Relevant Computing Curriculum. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 31, 100353.
Franklin, D., Weintrop, D., Palmer, J., Coenraad, M., Cobian, M., Beck, K., Rasmussen, A., Krause, S., White, M., Anaya, M., & Crenshaw, Z. (2020). Scratch Encore: The Design and Pilot of a Culturally-Relevant Intermediate Scratch Curriculum. Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 794–800.
Learn more about the Office of Computer Science at Chicago Public Schools
Episodes 4-7: Links to learn more.
NNERPP’s Brokering Workshop (that Jing took):
Routledge book where NNERPP members published tools about brokering (its open-access)
Stanford’s Certificate in Partnership Research
Stanford GSE incentive fund for projects in SFUSD /
Article on Creation of Joint Work
Webpage for the Stanford-SFUSD Partnership
What are the conditions under which research-practice partnerships succeed? by Caitlin C. Farrell, Laura Wentworth, and Michelle Nayfack in Phi Delta Kappan. March 22, 2021.
A university and district partnership closes the research-to-classroom gap, by Laura Wentworth, Richard Carranza, and Deborah Stipek in Phi Delta Kappan. May 1, 2016.
The Stanford-SFUSD Partnership: Development of Data-Sharing Structures and Processes, by Moonhawk Kim, Jim Shen, Laura Wentworth, Norma Ming, Michelle Reininger, and Eric Bettinger, in Handbook on Using Administrative Data for Research and Evidence-based Policy. 2020.
Dr. Liu's paper on absenteeism
Paper cited by the White House
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