The Racial and Social Justice Research-Practice Partnership Collaborative (RSJC), funded by a University of Maryland Grand Challenges Grant awarded to Principal Investigator (PI) Dr. Christine Neumerski and co-PIs Dr. Segun Eubanks and Dr. Jean Snell in the Center for Educational Innovation and Improvement and Dr. Apolonia Calderon in the School of Public Policy, spent its inaugural year building a partnership among project PIs, UMD researchers Dr. Awilda Rodriguez, Dr. Tracy Sweet, and Dr. Jennifer Turner, doctoral students Jenni Eaton and Staci Pippin-Kottkamp, and colleagues from area school districts, including Anne Arundel County Public Schools, Howard County Public Schools, Montgomery County Public Schools, and Prince George's County Public Schools.
Beginning this Fall, the RSJC will engage in a research-practice partnership to examine how Black males experience various aspects of public education.
To further the RSJC's mission to build capacity for research-practice partnerships across both the university and school districts, the RSJC also launched The RPP Exchange podcast and a book club last year. The podcast, now in its second season, brings researchers and practitioners together to further the conversation about bridging research and practice. The RSJC is also gearing up to expand the book club into a speaker series for the current academic year.
For more information about the initiative, visit: https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/rsjc/