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Research-Practice Partnership Award

*New in 2022* 


CERA is honoring an exemplary research-practice partnership in California. Recipients of this award represent the collaboration and cooperation between researchers and practitioners that results in improved educational outcomes.  Award recipients include at least one researcher and one K12 or higher education leader/practitioner and have proven results in:

  • Partnerships with an ongoing relationship focused on a specific area for improvement

  • Partnerships who demonstrative a collaborative, iterative, or cyclical process in which research informs practice and practice informs research

  • Partnerships in which researchers are embedded in the practice of teaching and learning or practitioners/leaders are integral to research activities

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 Research-Practice Partnership Award:
Nazanin Zargarpour (Claremont Graduate University) and
Monica Principe (Pomona Unified School District).

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