Engaging practitioners through an advisory board, co-design office hours, and guiding-principles publications¶

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Description¶

After finding a common practitioner database across DLPs unlikely and footprint reports risky for customer information, SEERNet adopted a broader engagement approach that engages educators rather than merely identifying them. Digital Promise "Published Practitioners at the Center: Catalyzing Research on Problems of Practice in Realistic Settings," hosted conversational Office Hours where researchers and practitioners co-designed research questions, and launched a SEERNet practitioner advisory board to engage K-12 educators in conversations about meaningful research and dissemination. Wave 3 plans extend this to higher education.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Respect each DLP's distinct modes of engagement with schools; customer information release restrictions shaped the design

Constraints¶

• Practitioner engagement so far has been easiest to imagine in K-12 and needs expansion to higher education over time

Target Learners¶

• K-12 educators and leaders
• higher education practitioners over time

Target Learning Goals¶

• shaping research questions toward practical problems of practice
• broadening dissemination and impact of research findings

Related Strategies¶

• Run conversational office hours in which practitioners and researchers co-design research questions with platform representatives

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Pautz Stephenson, S., & Roschelle, J. (2023). Making Waves: Reflections on SEERNet's Progress Towards Enabling Next Generation of Education Research. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/195