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Session Type: Roundtable Session
The objective of this symposium is to demonstrate how research-practice partnerships with state departments overseeing early learning can lead to more equitable, effective policymaking. Participants will learn how different research-practice partnerships are structured, the types of research they produce, and how they support early learning policy. Panelists will include researchers and a state cabinet leader who have worked closely with state administrators overseeing early childhood programs in California, Louisiana, Virginia, and Colorado. Panelists will describe how they have produced and used scholarly research in a way that supports state policy and will invite participants to reflect on how they can make their own research policy relevant.
California’s Universal PreK Expansion: Addressing Emerging Research Needs - Victoria Wang, Learning Policy Institute; Hanna Melnick, Learning Policy Institute; Melanie Leung-Gagné, Learning Policy Institute; Abby Christine Winer Schachner, Learning Policy Institute; Cathy Yun, Learning Policy Institute; Marjorie Wechsler, Learning Policy Institute; Emma García, Learning Policy Institute
Tackling Fragmentation Through Unification and Data Systems: A Research-Practice Partnership in Louisiana - Anna J. Markowitz, University of California - Los Angeles
Using Large-Scale Data to Inform ECE Policy: Highlights of Virginia’s Research Practice Partnership - Kate Miller-Bains, University of Virginia; Anna J. Markowitz, University of California - Los Angeles; Daphna Bassok, University of Virginia
A Statewide Evidence-Based Decision-Making Model that Informs Colorado’s Early Learning Investments - Whitney A. LeBoeuf, Colorado Evaluation and Action Lab; Diana Schaack, University of Colorado - Denver