Design Based Implementation Research

November 2015 RPP Forum: Defining the Focus of Partnership Work

2015

The Research-Practice Partnerships Forum is a monthly webinar series created by the Research + Practice Collaboratory to offer information, strategies, and discussion about partnership experiences. Every third Thursday of the month, the host, Bill Penuel, is joined by a panel of researchers and educators participating in research-practice partnerships around the country to share tools and insights to support new and ongoing collaborations.

In this second forum, "Defining the Focus of Partnership Work," panelists discussed the following:

  • How do partners who bring different strengths, needs, and interests decide on a productive focus for their work together
  • How does this focus change or stay the same over time?

Watch the webinar recording to hear what panelists said about their experiences working together. In addition, see below for helpful resources that each of the panelists shared.

November 2015 RPP Forum panelists included:

12 Related Resource(s)

  • Practical Tool

    Building Equity in Research-Practice Partnerships

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    BuildingEquity_Oct2015.pdf
  • Paper

    Organizing research and development at the intersection of learning, implementation, and design

    Penuel, W.R., Fishman, B.J., Sabelli, N. & Cheng, B. (2011). Organizing research and development at the intersection of learning, implementation, and design. Educational Researcher, 40(7), 331-337

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  • Practical Tool

    How to Negotiate the Collaborative Focus of a Research-Practice Partnership

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    http://researchandpractice.org/how-to-negotiate-the-collaborative-focus/
  • Web Link

    Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit

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    http://www.ubcpress.com/search/title_book.asp?BookID=5244
  • Paper

    Large-scale intervention research we can use

    Penuel, W.R., & Fishman, B.J. (2012). Large-scale intervention research we can use. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 49(3), 281-304

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  • Paper

    Making and Tinkering: A Review of the Literature

    Vossoughi, S. & Bevan, B. (October, 2014). Making and Tinkering: A Review of the Literature. National Research Council Committee on Out of School Time STEM: 1-55.

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  • Web Link

    National Education Research-Practice Partnerships (NERPP)

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    http://kinder.rice.edu/NERPP/
  • Practical Tool

    Negotiating and Understanding a Focus for Joint Work: Fishbone Diagram Structure

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    http://researchandpractice.org/resource/negotiating-and-understanding-a-focus-for-joint-work/
  • Web Link

    RPP Resources by William T. Grant Foundation

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    http://wtgrantfoundation.org/RPP
  • Practical Tool

    Sample Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Partnership Work

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    http://researchandpractice.org/resource/sample-memorandum-of-understanding-mou-for-partnership-work/
  • Web Link

    The Art of Tinkering by the Exploratorium

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    https://www.coursera.org/course/tinkering
  • Web Link

    Tinkering Fundamentals: A Constructionist Approach to STEM Learning

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    https://www.coursera.org/course/tinkering