Our Impact

NNERPP is launched with 16 founding RPP members at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University in response to the need to create a permanent infrastructure for RPP learning and support.

20 RPPs
75 participants

Monthly one-hour virtual brown bags provide space for NNERPP members to present past and current research projects, discuss specific partnership challenges, and workshop promising solutions. Additionally, invited external speakers share relevant research.

23 RPPs
75 participants

Published every two weeks, the NNERPP Newsletter shares the research that is being produced by NNERPP members, conference presentations by NNERPP members and friends, relevant literature in the RPP and broader education field, NNERPP announcements and webinars, and new funding and job opportunities.

The NNERPP Annual Report highlights the work of the network and its members for the calendar year, providing a sneak peek into the efforts of RPPs across the nation throughout the years.

This curated collection of the most relevant and up-to-date resources from across the web is for those working in RPPs, teaching about RPPs, and learning about RPPs, and is being updated continuously .

30 RPPs
90 participants

(1) A guide for state education agencies (SEAs) to assess their potential to successfully engage in a research-practice partnership.
(2) A guide for SEA leaders about launching research-practice partnerships.

NNERPP Subnetworks are specialized learning communities for members organized by topic or role and provide space for targeted knowledge exchange and collaborative learning.

This virtual journey to each member’s home base helps build deeper connections with each partnership in NNERPP.

40 RPPs
140 participants

NNERPP’s quarterly magazine NNERPP Extra aims to deliver key insights from the intersection of education research, policy, and practice by sharing deep and reflective articles around pressing issues in education tackled by RPPs and high-priority questions that consider how to engage in RPP work more effectively.

NNERPP-hosted RPP Development Workshops support RPP teams applying for NSF’s Computer Science for All (CSforAll) RPP solicitation.

44 RPPs
~400 participants

Co-hosted with the National Center for Research in Policy and Practice (NCRPP), this meeting brings together close to 30 thought leaders in the RPP field to collaboratively explore the development of measures and protocols to assess constructs related to effective partnering.

The NNERPP community shares input and thoughts on a number of important aspects of NNERPP as an organization and how it meets members’ learning goals.

52 RPPs
~400 participants

NNERPP helps design and run a new course on research-practice partnerships in education at Rice University, with Director Paula Arce-Trigatti co-teaching with Houston Education Research Consortium Director Ruth López Turley.

In support of the NNERPP Early Childhood Education Subnetwork, this public-facing website and research repository includes all early childhood education research produced by the RPPs in this NNERPP Subnetwork, organized by topic.

NNERPP’s first-ever awards program, “Student Voice 4 RPPs: Advancing the Democratization of Evidence Through Student Voice in Research-Practice Partnerships,” recognizes, honors, and further supports existing RPP efforts that have a strong interest in and/or currently support youth involvement in RPP work.

The NNERPP-sourced “RPP Brokers Handbook: A Guide to Brokering in Education Research-Practice Partnerships” by Laura Wentworth, Carrie Conaway, Samantha Shewchuk, and Paula Arce-Trigatti codifies the work of brokers in education RPPs, thereby identifying the specific and essential role they play in enabling public scholarship and social impact and helping current and aspiring RPP brokers in learning about and honing brokering skills.

59 RPPs
Close to 500 participants

The monthly NNERPP Virtual Brown Bags turn into two regularly occurring series: A workshop series that takes on RPP challenges and the design of possible solutions; and the NNERPP member spotlight series, where we get to know different NNERPP members better.

In this year-long pilot training program for brokers in RPPs, participants work to improve their skills and knowledge related to brokering in an RPP and learn effective brokering practices.

NNERPP co-leads a multi-organizational effort to build formal trainingopportunities as a means to broaden participation in collaborative education research.

51 RPPs
134 participants

Through options to participate in a yearlong learning community of RPP brokers, a series of four workshops based on the NNERPP RPP Brokers Handbook, and one on one coaching sessions with an expert RPP broker, brokers improve their skills and knowledge related to brokering.

In addition to the Brokers Subnetwork, NNERPP also launches the University Brokers Subnetwork, the Youth Voice Subnetwork, and the California Subnetwork.

As a follow-up to NNERPP’s 2021 publication of the RPP Brokers Handbook, Routledge publishes an open-access version of the book: “Brokering in Education Research-Practice Partnerships: A Guide for Education Professionals and Researchers”.

Building on 2022 efforts around building the field for collaborative education research, the Collaborative Education Research Collective authors the white paper “Towards a Field for Collaborative Education Research: Developing a Framework for the Complexity of Necessary Learning”.