Recent efforts to improve the quality and availability of scientific research in education,
coupled with increased expectations for the use of research in practice, demand new ways …

Research‐practice partnerships (RPPs) have drawn a great deal of attention as promising
structures for bringing educational research and practice closer together. However …

Districts nationwide have launched efforts to fundamentally change their central offices to
support improved teaching and learning for all students and are turning to research for help …

This study examined how school and district leaders access, value, and use research. From
a representative sample of school districts across the United States, we surveyed 733 school …

This report presents results from the second phase of a descriptive study of the Researcher-
Practitioner Partnerships in Education Research program. This two-year grant program …

This study investigated what research district leaders find useful. It draws on evidence from
interviews and surveys of central office leaders in three large urban districts in the United …

The gestures we produce serve a variety of functions—they affect our communication, guide
our attention and help us think and change the way we think. Gestures can consequently …

The challenges of transforming our educational systems to fulfill enduring needs for equity,
justice, and responsiveness will take a multitude of partners. Research-practice partnerships …

The presence of a research-practice gap is recognized across multiple fields including
education, psychology, and public health. In this paper, we examine which of five structural …

The research community focuses on conducting research with the purported goal of
improving educational practice, yet the two communities largely remain disjointed. This …