Grand Challenges: Racial and Social Justice Research-Practice Partnership Collaborative

UMD Team Builds Social Justice Research-Practice Partnership with Area School Districts

September 26, 2024

“Equitable, Trusted Partnerships” for Racial and Social Justice in Education

December 7, 2023

Past Events:

October 11, 2023
Research Practice Partnerships as a Means of Addressing Racial and Social Injustice in Schools
4:30-6:30 pm, University of Maryland Marriott, Room 0105

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) 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.