"To Know Is Not Enough": Observations From a Research-Practice Partnership

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 7
  In Roundtable Session: Bearing Witness as Research Methodology: Critical Strategies for Transformative Praxis

Abstract

Educators in a small, affluent, majority white school district purport commitment to working toward developing more equitable and just cultures for all students. Through observations and interviews of a district-wide “Equity Group," researchers inquired: “How do opportunities to consider one’s racial identity and the racial identities of students in a school district influence white educational stakeholders to take action toward dismantling educational racial inequities?” Over a two years long research practice partnership, school leaders’ realizations and self-awareness about race and school inequity were not motivating enough for individuals to take actions toward dismantling collaboratively identified practices that advantaged some students in the district over others.

Authors

• Danielle Greene, Stanford University

• Ann C. Jaquith, Stanford University

• Arnetha F. Ball, Stanford University