A program of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University
RESEARCH-PRACTICE PARTNERSHIPS, long-term mutually beneficial
formalized collaborations between education researchers and practitioners,
are a promising strategy for producing more relevant research,
improving the use of research evidence in decision making,
and engaging both researchers and practitioners to tackle problems of practice.
Although promising, research-practice partnerships are challenging to create and difficult to maintain.
NNERPP aims to develop, support, and connect research-practice partnerships in education to improve their productivity.
NNERPP is a professional learning community for RPPs working in education.
We currently have 76 members in our network, reflecting a wide variety of approaches to the work.
The NNERPP RPP Knowledge Clearinghouse contains a curated collection of resources to help you with your education RPP efforts.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NNERPP Annual Forum: Registration is open!
Join us at the NNERPP Annual Forum from July 24-26 in Richmond, VA! Please register here. Early registration ends June 15, 2024. We can’t wait to see you there!
We also invite you to submit session proposals for the Annual Forum! With this call, we are eager to find out which sessions you would be interested in organizing or seeing on the agenda. Learn more and submit here. The submission deadline is April 24, 2024.
NNERPP Extra
We just published a new issue of our quarterly magazine NNERPP Extra! We are excited to share the following articles with you:
- Ensuring Every Student is Known: How An RPP’s Rapid Response Study Provided Quick Answers to Guide Program Implementation at Scale: Insights from the Nashville Partnership for Educational Equity Research on a district program designed to strengthen student-adult relationships in schools and its “rapid response study” approach to this work.
- Does Money Matter for the Production of Relevant Research? Incentivizing Researchers to Work on Research Relevant to Practice, Policy, and Communities: An examination of three university grant-making programs designed to incentivize university researcher participation in RPP work.
- When RPPs In California Work Together: Launching a Regional Subnetwork: An account of NNERPP’s recent launch of a regional subnetwork and reflections from the subnetwork’s first in-person meeting.
- Research Headlines: We share a roundup listing all of our members’ research from the past quarter.
Find the entire issue here, and our website here. Happy reading!
Spencer Foundation
- Associate Program Officer [added 3/26/24]
Georgia State University
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses [added 3/25/24]
Education Northwest
Tennessee Education Research Alliance
- Data Manager [added 3/14/24]
- Postdoctoral Fellow [added 3/20/24]
University of Washington
Research Alliance for New York City Schools
- Outreach and Communications Manager [added 2/21/24]
Chicago Public Schools
- External Research Specialist [added 2/16/24]
UChicago Consortium on School Research
- Senior Research Analyst, Quantitative [added 1/23/24]
Washington University in St. Louis
Virginia Tech
- Associate Director of Research-Practice Partnerships [added 1/04/24]
Education Policy Innovation Collaborative
- Center Director [added 10/03/23]
University of California, Irvine
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CONTACT
NNERPP
Kinder Institute for Urban Research
Rice University
6100 Main St. MS-258
Houston, TX 77005-1827
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NNERPP is made possible through generous funding provided by:
BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION // WILLIAM T. GRANT FOUNDATION