Our Goals

Collaborate

Collaborate with scholars, educators, and partners to identify and utilize effective scientific methods, field-based practices, and policies to accelerate advances in sustaining effective practices in education.

We will accelerate advances in sustaining effective practices in education by:

• developing cross-disciplinary collaborations to identify, adapt, and evaluate effective theories, frameworks, models, and practices from related fields;

• cultivating partnerships with field-based innovators to identify facilitators and barriers to scaling and sustaining innovative practices and policies; and

• hosting interdisciplinary forums to identify vexing problems and possible solutions related to sustained effective practices in schools. 

Research

Conduct and disseminate interdisciplinary, policy- and practice-relevant research to create new scientific knowledge to increase sustained, effective, equitable, and scalable practices in education

We will engage in innovative research that accelerates evidence about sustained, effective, equitable, and scalable practices for all students and educators, by:

• providing a forum for interdisciplinary researchers interested in advancing sustained practice in schools;

• engaging in a wide range of research activities and methods including local demonstration projects, large empirical studies, qualitative inquiry, and dataset analyses to inform sustained practices in schools; and

• actively disseminating scholarship to advance science. 

Share

Share knowledge and resources related to sustaining effective practices in schools with partners to inform policy, practice, and research

We will share what we learn about sustained, effective, equitable, and scalable practices by:

• targeting information to meet the unique needs of varied audiences (e.g., practitioners, scholars, students, community members, policymakers);

• sharing via varied in-person and digital platforms (e.g., online repository, social media, continuing education courses); and

• providing high-quality technical assistance to schools and agencies.