9:10 p.m.
Greetings Colleagues,
The application window for the following grant opportunity from The Spencer Foundation
opens today. Many (if not all) COEHD faculty engage in collaborative work with schools,
colleagues at COEHD, other UTSA colleges, and other universities, professional
associations, federal and state agencies, CBOs, NPOs, and advocacy groups. Following the
literature on designing research-practice partnerships, this funding competition from
Spencer would support faculty wanting to expand such work and connect it to their rigorous
research.
Spencer Foundation Research-Practice Partnership Grants Program LOI due November 10, 2021,
12 PM (noon) CT; Proposal due December 8, 2021, 12 PM (noon) CT
https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/research-practice-partnerships
The Research-Practice Partnership (RPP) Grants Program supports education research
projects that engage in collaborative and participatory partnerships with project budgets
up to $400,000 and durations of up to three years. The Spencer Foundation views
partnerships as an important approach to knowledge generation and the improvement of
education, broadly construed. Rigorous partnership work is intentionally organized to
engage diverse forms of expertise and perspectives, across practitioners as well as
scholars and disciplines, in knowledge generation around pressing problems of practice.
Further, RPPs can facilitate the long-term accumulation of knowledge in new ways as
researchers and practitioners work together to ask practitioner-relevant questions on key
topics in specific settings over time. Many key problems of practice are historically
saturated and require multiple perspectives and long-term engagement if sustainable and
systemic change is to occur. Over the long term, research conducted by RPPs will result in
new insights into the processes, practices, and policies that improve education for
learners, educators, families, communities, and institutions where learning and teaching
happen (e.g., schools, universities, museums, other workplaces). This grant program is
open to partnerships between researchers and a broad array of practitioners. Practitioners
are defined as school districts, county offices of education, state educational
organizations, policy-makers, universities, community-based organizations,
out-of-school-time providers, informal educators, and other social sectors that
significantly impact learners’ lives. As such, the Spencer Foundation is open to
applications from design-based research teams, networked improvement communities,
placed-based research alliances, and other partnership arrangements.
Recent RPP funded awards:
Untelling the Past to Reimagine the Future: Transforming K-12 Education and Supporting the
Transition to Higher Education in the Rural U.S. South
Christopher R. Lawton, Theodore J Kopcha, Melanie L. Hatch, Pamela Pitman Brown, Elizabeth
Delancy, Matthew E. Stanley, Avis E. Williams, Andrew W. Cooper
Putnam County Charter School System
Comprehensive Sexuality Education Curriculum in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A
community-based participatory approach to contextually relevant programming
Relebohile Moletsane, Xolile Msimanga
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Use Your Voice: Linguistic Justice to Literacy Practice in the State of Georgia
Leah Panther, Eric Parker
Mercer University
Centering Trauma-Informed Practices (TIP) to Sustain TIP Knowledge and Reduce Secondary
Traumatic Stress in Novice Teachers: An Interdisciplinary Research-Practice Partnership
Ofelia Schepers, Megan Brennan, Kathryn Young
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Strengthening the Miami-Dade Early Learning Partnership: IDEAS for Children
Rebecca Shearer, K. Lori Hanson, Marisol Diaz, Maria T. Riestra-Quintero, Imelda K. Moise,
Anabel Espinosa, Christine Delgado
University of Miami
Please contact me for any assistance you might need to apply.
Thank you.
--Iwan
Mr. Iwan Notowidigdo
Senior Grant Development Coordinator
The University of Texas at San Antonio
College of Education & Human Development (COEHD)
iwan.notowidigdo(a)utsa.edu
(Mobile: 347-231-5931)
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