Re-Imagining Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships: The Regional Educational Laboratories

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

The Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) have long been charged with responding to regional education needs, but the newest generation of RELs will conduct their work in a new way: through sustained partnerships between researchers and education practitioners. This panel will present the theory of action behind these partnerships and how the RELs in three regions are working through a variety of partnership structures to bring data and research to bear on important education issues. Each of the RELs represented on this panel will present specific projects related to college and career readiness.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Section 1: Politics and Governance

Chair

• John Q. Easton, Institute of Education Sciences

Papers

• College and Career Readiness Research Alliances in the REL West Region - Andrea Anne Lash, WestEd

• College and Career Readiness Research Alliances in the REL Northeast and Islands Region - Julie Riordan, Education Development Center, Inc.

• College and Career Readiness Research Alliances in the REL Pacific Region - Akiemi Glenn, Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (REL Pacific)

Discussant

• Rebecca A. Maynard, U.S. Department of Education