Researchers partner with individual school communities through intervention and action research to build local problem-solving capacity¶

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Description¶

The agenda calls for researchers to work with individual school communities over time to help clarify problems and identify solutions, in arrangements the report characterizes as intervention research, organizational development, and action research. Unlike requests for off-the-shelf information, these partnerships address less well-defined problems of school practice. The Consortium offers to facilitate connections between local researchers and schools and to form a support network among researchers engaged in such work.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A researcher must work with an individual school community over some period of time rather than delivering prepackaged information

Constraints¶

• The assistance schools seek is not off-the-shelf information, so this strategy does not fit well-defined requests for programs or practices

Target Learners¶

• school communities including principals, teachers, parents, and local school council members

Target Learning Goals¶

• building school communities' capacity to solve their own problems as self-guided organizations

Related Strategies¶

• Teacher Action Research
• Encouraging Self Advocacy

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Consortium on Chicago School Research. (1991). Achieving School Reform in Chicago: What We Need To Know — A Research Agenda. Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/achieving-school-reform-chicago-what-we-need-know