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 76 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 will take place July 23-25 in St. Louis, MO. The theme will be: “Meeting the Moment: Connection, Collaboration, and Creativity for the Long Term.” Registrations are opening soon and session submissions are open now! Please use this form to view the guiding criteria and to submit your proposal(s) by Wednesday, April 30, 2025.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

NNERPP Annual Forum dates and session submissions

The NNERPP Annual Forum is our favorite opportunity to gather as a NNERPP community — for anyone who can join us, we are so looking forward to being together again this summer. Let’s meet the moment together at #NNERPP25:

Dates: July 23-25
Location: St. Louis, MO — visiting our friends at the Institute for School Partnership at Washington University in St. Louis!
Theme: “Meeting the Moment: Connection, Collaboration, and Creativity for the Long Term”
Registrations opening soon…

Session submissions are open now! With this call, we are eager to find out which sessions you would be interested in organizing or seeing on the agenda. Please use this form to view the guiding criteria and to submit your proposal(s) by Wednesday, April 30, 2025.

New issue of NNERPP Extra

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

Student Mobility in St. Louis: Uncovering New Challenges Through Data: The St. Louis School Research Practice Collaborative shares its partnership research on student mobility, including how it led to deeper investigations into how data is collected and coded.
Key Milestones for Establishing a Research-Practice-Platform Partnership: The NYC Partnership for Math Equity shares lessons learned from launching a research-practice-platform partnership, guided by the Milestones tool for emerging RPPs.
Only Have Five Minutes? Check Out Two Ways to Integrate Quick Health Discussions With Your RPP: An RPP evaluator describes how two RPPs are using mini-routine prompts in their regular meetings and shares three tips for using these quick health check routines in your context.
Research Roundup: Find all of our members’ research in this searchable research roundup database.

Find the entire issue here, and our website here. Happy reading!