The SRPC is a partnership between area researchers and St. Louis regional school leaders to respond to the needs of students and educators using rigorous research.
Decisions to make sustainable and effective improvements in schools require data and rigorous analysis. Though schools collect and report an enormous amount of data, they are often constrained by the time and resources needed to analyze it deeply. Researchers may have data analysis expertise but have challenges gaining access to it quickly and understanding which questions are most meaningful to pursue. A research-practice partnership, or RPP, is a partnership between researchers and school practitioners to analyze education data to help schools serve their students better.
Our Mission
Our mission is to conduct rigorous research for educators to inform policies and practices that foster systemic improvements that lead to educational, social, and emotional growth for students in STL schools. We do this by creating collaborations between researchers and practitioners and conducting rigorous research for practice.
Our Vision
We aim to develop impactful research collaborations between researchers & school practitioners so that children attending St. Louis schools have access to excellent educational supports & opportunities.
Our Values
We aim to develop impactful research collaborations between researchers & school practitioners so that children attending St. Louis schools have access to excellent educational supports & opportunities.
| Research for Practice Research conducted through the SRPC will focus on what is actionable to improve conditions for students & educators as a result of learning from our analyses. | Equitable We will strive to dismantle oppressive systems of practice and research and ensure that students who have been historically marginalized are considered and engaged with the utmost respect. |
| Rigorous The collaborative recognizes the value of rigorous statistical analysis & research methods and will strive to use the most rigorous and appropriate research techniques to address the complexity of the question being answered, in both qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry. | Collaborative The purpose of this research-practice partnership is to work alongside school leaders to troubleshoot, ideate, and create potential solutions to challenges affecting the education system in St. Louis–for the purpose of student and educator thriving. |