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Our Efforts
Our Efforts
RSJC Community Members
Dean Kimberly Griffin, College of Education
SEAT Presentation from AACPS Office of Equity
Dr. Lorenzo Hughes, Equity Director for AACPS
Year (2024–25)
In the first year of the initiative, UMD researchers and the Equity Director from each of our partner districts came together to identify a problem of practice. Our aim was to begin to plan out how we could use a research-practice partnership to address a problem around racial and social justice across the three districts.
Over the course of the year, the Collaborative engaged in multiple deep and meaningful conversations about the equity challenges each district faces. A partner consultant, Opportunity Consulting, conducted an equity audit for the three partner districts by analyzing publicly available equity data. Over the course of the year, the collaborative determined that it would focus the research on Black boys in PK–12 spaces, seeking to locate and understand the spaces in which Black boys thrive.
Key Documents:
Some literature on research-practice partnerships:
Wilson, C. M. (2021, July 19). Research-practice partnerships for racially just school communities. William T. Grant Foundation. https://wtgrantfoundation.org/research-practice-partnerships-for-racially-just-school-communities
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