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Research, Policy, and Practice: The Role of Research-Practice Partnerships in Promoting Evidence-Based Decisions. December 5, 2013. @AYPF_Tweets. Today’s Agenda: Dr. Cynthia Coburn, Northwestern University - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Research, Policy, and Practice: The Role of Research-Practice
Partnerships in Promoting Evidence-Based Decisions
December 5, 2013
@AYPF_Tweets
Today’s Agenda:
Dr. Cynthia Coburn, Northwestern University
Dr. Amy Gerstein, Stanford University, Executive Director of the John W. Gardner Center for Children and Youth and their Communities
Dr. Philip Bell, University of Washington, Executive Director of the UW Institute for Science and Math Education
C Y N T H I A E . C O B U R N , N O RT H W E S T E R N U N I V E R S I T Y
RESEARCH-PRACTICE PARTNERSHIPS:LEVERAGING RESEARCH FOR EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• William Penuel, University of Colorado, Boulder• Kimberly Geil, Independent Researcher
WHY DON’T EDUCATIONAL LEADERS USE RESEARCH?
• Not focused on pressing concerns• Not credible• Not timely or useful• Lack of capacity
RESEARCH-PRACTICE PARTNERSHIPS
Long-term collaborations between practitioners and researchers that are organized to investigate problems of practice and solutions for improving system outcomes
RESEARCH-PRACTICE PARTNERSHIPS: WHAT DO ADVOCATES SAY?
• Increase relevance• Increase credibility• Increase usability• Brings greater expertise to district decision
making• Increase organizational capacity to use research
WHITE PAPER
• Commissioned by William T. Grant Foundation• Reviewed research related to research-practice
partnerships• Interviewed key leaders across the country• Conducted case studies on select partnerships
CORE FEATURES
• Focus research on problems of practice• Long-term• Mutualistic• Produce original analyses • Carefully structured and organized
TYPOLOGY OF RESEARCH-PRACTICE PARTNERSHIPS
• Research Alliances• Design Research Partnerships• Network Improvement Communities
RESEARCH ALLIANCES
• Place-based• Primary goal is to inform local policy and practice• Perform research on key policy issues• Develop and maintain data archives• Distinct roles for researchers and practitioners;
collaboration at beginning and end of process
EXAMPLES
• John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities• Consortium for Chicago School Research• Research Alliance for New York City Schools
DESIGN RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS
• Place-based• Co-design and test strategies for improving
teaching and learning locally that also yield general knowledge about teaching and learning• Researchers and practitioners engage in
collaboration at every stage of the process
EXAMPLES
• University of Washington and Bellevue Public Schools• MIST, a partnership of Vanderbilt University with
two urban school districts• Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP)
NETWORK IMPROVEMENT COMMUNITIES
• Constituted as networks• Use form of research called “improvement
science”• Focuses on small tests of change and rapid cycles
of research and development• Roles of researchers and district staff can become
blurred• Goal is to build capacity, “improve improvement”
EXAMPLES
• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching• BTEN project on teacher effectiveness and retention• Statway and Quantway, networks for community colleges
addressing developmental mathematics
CHALLENGES
• Researchers and practitioners occupy different cultural worlds
CHALLENGES
• Researchers and practitioners occupy different cultural worlds• Maintaining mutualism
CHALLENGES
• Researchers and practitioners occupy different cultural worlds• Maintaining mutualism• High turnover in district leadership
IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY MAKERS
• Provide funding for partnership infrastructure
IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY MAKERS
• Provide funding for partnership infrastructure• Consider co-funding researchers and practitioners
IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY MAKERS
• Provide funding for partnership infrastructure• Consider co-funding researchers and practitioners• Invest in capacity building
IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY MAKERS
• Provide funding for partnership infrastructure• Consider co-funding researchers and practitioners• Invest in capacity building• Develop infrastructure for spread and scale
beyond local districts
COPY OF WHITE PAPER
• http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/publications_and_reports/browse_reports/research-practice-partnerships-a-strategy-for-leveraging-research-for-educational-improvement-in-school-districts• Or email: [email protected]
Research, Policy and Practice: The Role of Intermediaries in Promoting Evidence-Based Decisions
American Youth Policy Forum Webinar
December 5, 2013
Amy Gerstein, PhD Executive Director
John W. Gardner CenterStanford University
The Gardner Center partners with communities to develop leadership, conduct community-driven research, and effect positive change in the lives of youth
About the Gardner Center
RESEARCH
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
CAPACITYBUILDING
CHANGE
The Youth Sector
YOUTH
AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS
SUMMER PROGRAMS
HEALTH SERVICES
FAMILIES
RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
NEIGHBORHOODS
SCHOOLS
SOCIAL SERVICES
Deep Partnership is Essential• Deep partnerships underlie a robust youth
sector approach to community youth development
• Partnerships build trust• This is hard work; it takes TIME
Principles and Considerations• Engage stakeholders at every step of the
process• Communicate a commitment to using data
for action• Consider tensions or conflicting purposes• Cultivate shared responsibility and discourse• Ensure sufficient capacity – human and
technology
GOALSupport youth
and families and strengthen community
KEY PLAYERS
8 public and nonprofit
organizations in Redwood
City
OUR ROLESince 2000, we have provided
capacity building,
research, and community
engagement across all initiatives
Redwood City 2020 Partnership
GOALImprove
supports and opportunities for youth in East Palo
Alto
KEY PLAYERS33 youth serving
organizations convened by One East Palo
Alto
OUR ROLEServe as data partner
Advise on the steering and youth development committees
YESS Partnership
GOALImprove the educational success of
court-dependent
youth collectively served by partner
organizations
KEY PLAYERS
Child Welfare Services,
foster youth service
providers, four school
districts
OUR ROLELink
dependency records to
educational data to examine the relationship
between dependency and
school outcomes
Educational Outcomes for Court Dependent Youth
GOALDouble the number of
underrepresented students with a
workplace applicable
postsecondary credential by
2020
KEY PLAYERS
Mayor’s Office brought together
SFUSD, CCSF, DCYF, the Gardner
Center, and others
OUR ROLESupport the initiative via data analysis using the YDA
Bridge to Success Partnership
Contributions to the Youth Sector & Research Community
• Supports efforts to improve youth service & outcomes
• Advances inter-agency collaboration
• Increases coherence of policy and practice
• Shifts how rigorous research is conceived and conducted
gardnercenter.stanford.edu
@gardnercenter
Question and Answer
Design-Research Partnerships: Operating Principles & StrategiesPhilip BellLearning Sciences & Human Development University of Washington
All young people should be able to decide their futures.
We create partnerships to envision, develop and study equity-focused
educational improvements in areas of science, technology, engineering and
mathematics (STEM).
UW Institute Mission
Design Research Uses IterativeCycles to Promote Continuous Improvement
Analysis
Enact(and collect data)
Design&
Develop
Theorize
http://www.designbasedresearch.org/
Info Online: tinyurl.com/ScienceFramework & nextgenscience.org
Implementation Underway to Support New Vision for K-12 Science Education
The Framework & Standards were reviewed and refined by over 40,000
teachers, scientists, engineers, educational researchers, youth and other
stakeholders in K-12 science ed.
Integrating R+P perspectives
to iteratively
Design Research PartnershipsWhat they focus on…
co-design, test, refine, and adapt
tools, routines, contexts …
Curricula
PD Experiences
Research protocols
Assessment Tools
Integrating R+P perspectives
to iteratively
Design Research PartnershipsWhat they focus on…
co-design, test, refine, and adapt
tools, routines, contexts
embedded in STEM ed improvement efforts.
Schools / Classrooms
Informal Science Ed
Research Communities
Districts
Professional Associations
Current Research-Practice Partnerships
4. Redesign of a Comprehensive High School
3. Multi-District Educational Improvement
Effort in K-8 Science Education
5. Elementary Science Curriculum Redesign
2. Cross-Setting
Intervention in 5th Grade
Science
1. Scaling an Afterschool
Science Apprenticeship
Program
• Improve existing curriculum materials by leveraging established and exploratory learning principles and practitioner knowledge focused on expanding learner agency
• Implement revised units across network of teachers and make improvements across years
• Conduct quasi-experimental learning study as part of design-based implementation research (Penuel, Fishman, Cheng & Sabelli, 2011)
• NSF-funded (DRK12#1019503 & LIFE SLC#0835854)
Bellevue-UW Case Study: Science Curriculum Revision Initiative
• Formation: Fmr. Superintendent Mike Riley approached John Bransford and his team
• Collaborative Project 1: Science curriculum review; redesign and implementation of one science unit LIFE Science of Learning Center Engaged in Curriculum Redesign
Work & Analysis (Bransford, Vye; Bell; Penuel, Harris & Phillips)
• Collaborative Project 2: Curriculum adaptation of all 5th grade and 2nd grade science kits
• Staff transitions have been made as needed
• Currently pursuing follow-on funding
Bellevue-UW Case Study: Evolution of the Partnership