National Network of Education Research - Practice Partnerships |

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.

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NNERPP is a professional learning community for RPPs working in education.

MEMBERS

We currently have 78 members in our network, reflecting a wide variety of approaches to the work.

RESOURCES

The NNERPP RPP Knowledge Clearinghouse contains a curated collection of resources to help you with your education RPP efforts.

The 2025 NNERPP Annual Forum is taking place July 23-25 in St. Louis, MO! The theme will be: “Meeting the Moment: Connection, Collaboration, and Creativity for the Long Term.” To register for the Forum, please use this form. Early registration ends June 15, 2025. We look forward to seeing you there!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

NNERPP Extra

We just published a new issue of our quarterly magazine NNERPP Extra! We are excited to share our fall issue with you, which includes the following articles:

What Do New Teachers Need? How an RPP Worked to Tailor Professional Development for First-Time Teachers: The Oakland Unified School District and University of California, Berkeley Research-Practice Partnership (RPP) shares research that explores new teachers’ experiences with professional learning to better tailor early career learning that is valuable to these teachers.
Making the Case for Integrating Youth-Participatory Action Research into Research-Practice Partnerships: 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.
Growing Together: How The NNERPP Community is Expanding the Brokering Handbook: The NNERPP community has been deeply exploring brokering practices and how to support RPP brokers for several years; here, we share more context of this work and highlight four new brokering cases that add to our understanding of several aspects of brokering in RPPs.
Research Headlines: Find all of our members’ research in this searchable research roundup database.