1st Edition
Navigating Issues of Equity in Schools Through Research-Practice Partnerships Stories From the Field
List of Contributors
Preface
Part 1: Introduction and Frame
1. Navigating Issues of Equity in Schools Through Research-Practice Partnerships
Jesse Senechal, Hillary Parkhouse, and David Naff
2. Practice-side tensions and tradeoffs when coproducing research: Mind the thorns
Norma Ming and Sarah Dickson
Part 2: The Case Studies
Theme 1: Navigating Partnerships and Relationships
3. Centering Equitable Relationships in a Young Research-Practice Partnership: Design Features and Dilemmas
Marcy Singer-Gabella et al.
4. Cultivating a Mutualistic Partnership for Inquiry
Divya Varier et al.
5. Sustaining a Research-Practice Partnership While Addressing Disproportionality in School Discipline
David Naff et al.
Theme 2: Equity in Project Design and Implementation
6. A Research Practice Partnership to Accelerate Learning in Kent, WA School District: In Search of Bright Spots
Rachael Waldrop et al.
7. The Value of Pivoting: Equity-Centered Lessons Learned in a Research-Practice Partnership Between Rural Districts and a Research-focused Non-Profit
Merijke Coenraad et al.
Theme 3: Centering Marginalized Voices and Community Engagement
8. Educational Equity Moves at the Speed of Trust: A Research Practice Partnership to Support Black Students’ Postsecondary Pathways
Esohe Osai et al.
9. Expanding Conceptions of Equity from Network Practice to the Research Process
Kemi A. Oyewole and Eve Arbogast
10: Engaging Historically Marginalized Students and Families in School Improvement Processes: Insights from a University-District-Nonprofit RPP
Ariel Tichnor-Wagner et al.
Theme 4: Navigating Contextual Factors and Systems
11. Looking at Equity Through the Rearview Mirror: Reflections from a RPP Project Focused on Wellbeing of Educators in a Rural School District
Isela Peña et al.
12. Building an RPP with Equity in Mind: Delaware Early Literacy Research-Practice Partnership
Anastasia Purintonet al.
13: Navigating and Transforming K12 Systems Through Research-Practice Partnerships
Maia Elkana et al.
Part 3: Final Thoughts
14. Emboldening Present and Future RPP Leaders: Pursuing Equity in Politically Charged Times
Hillary Parkhouse, Jesse Senechal, and David Naff
Biography
Jesse Senechal is Executive Director of the Institute for Collaborative Research and Evaluation at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Education, USA.
David Naff is the Director of the Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Education, USA.
Hillary Parkhouse is Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Virginia Commonwealth University, USA.
