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Developing and Scaling Internal Capacity

A Research to Practice Model

At the IEE at San Jose State Unversity's Lurie College of Education, we:

  • Partner with K-14 schools and districts to provide customized professional learning that promotes equity and access
  • Use a collaborative, emancipatory model with faculty experts who center historically marginalized learners
  • Facilitate systems-level pedagogical and organizational transformation

 

Why use a research to practice model?

  • Systems-level reform requires coherent and aligned efforts (Cohen & Mehta, 2017)
  • Effective PD draws on internal assets, is context-specific, and research-based (Welton et al., 2018)
  • Most diversity, equity, and inclusion trainings are one-off episodes conducted by outsiders, which ais to promote sutained inquiry into practice (Pollock & Matschiner, 2022)
  • Excessive attention to equity mindsets prior to taking action can inhibit change efforts (Ishimaru & Galloway, 2021)
  • "Strong equity... requires collaboration among diverse stakeholderrs to first recognize and then confront the reproduction of inequities through the everyday structural and systemic aspects of schools [and] school systems" (Eddy Spicer & Gomez, 2022, p. 90)

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