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Racial and Social Justice Research-Practice Partnership Collaborative

Grant Type: Team Project Grant
Topics: Racial and Social Justice, Education
Colleges Represented: EDUC, SPP

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May 8, 2025
Racial and Social Justice Collaboration Bright Spots Community Forum
4:30-6:30 pm, Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center
Featuring Katara West, Senior Equity Specialist, AACPS, and Miesha Walker, Senior Equity Specialist, AACPS
Register here.

Summary

The Racial and Social Justice Research-Practice Partnership Collaborative (RSJC) leverages the power of research-practice partnerships (RPP) to address one of the grand challenges of our time: deep, persistent educational inequities in learning opportunities and outcomes that disproportionately impact historically marginalized students. RPPs are centered on equity: 1) University of Maryland Racial and Social Justice Research-Practice Partnership Collaborative (RSJC) equity of the research outcomes, aimed at pushing research towards solving practical problems that our most marginalized communities face; and 2) equity of the research process, aimed at disrupting the traditional power dynamic between researchers (“experts”) and practitioners (passive recipients of the "experts"’ knowledge). The RSJC is partnering with local educational practitioners around the pressing challenges they face. Through a collaborative effort that spans the UMD College of Education, Office of Community Engagement, School of Public Policy, and local school districts, the RSJC is designing and implementing research-practice partnerships that tackle pressing problems of racial and social justice in our school communities; fostering connections among UMD faculty and local practitioners; and building the capacity of UMD faculty and students to engage in impactful RPPs.
Faculty headshot PI: Christine Neumerski

Senior Research Fellow

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Apolonia Calderon

Assistant Professor, Public Policy

SPP Faculty headshot Jean Snell

Senior Faculty Specialist

EDUC Faculty Headshot Segun Eubanks

Director of the Center for Education Innovation and Improvement

EDUC Faculty headshot Pamela Shetley

Partnership Coordinator

EDUC Faculty Headshot Brandi Slaughter

Associate Clinical Professor, Public Policy

SPP headshot Gloria Aparicio Blackwell

Director, Office of Community Engagement

Headshot Sonya Riley

Manager, PDS Partnerships and Programs

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Cherise Hunter

Fellow, Center for Education Innovation and Improvement

EDUC headshot Douglas W. Anthony

Director of the Doctorate of Education, and Fellow, Center for Education Innovation and Improvement

EDUC Jennifer Eaton headshot Jennifer Eaton

Ph.D. Student, Teacher Education & Professional Development

EDUC Staci Pippin-Kottkamp headshot Staci Pippin-Kottkamp

Ph.D. Student, Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership

EDUC Awilda Rodriguez Headshot Awilda Rodriguez

Associate Professor, Dept. of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education

EDUC Tracy Sweet headshot Tracy Sweet

Associate Professor, Dept. of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology

EDUC jennifer turner headshot Jennifer Turner

Associate Professor, Dept. of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership

EDUC

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