Center for Reimagining Education Research
The Center for Reimagining Education Research (CRER) connects education research, policy, and practice to support the learning and collaboration needed for true K-12 systems change.
Today’s educators and researchers face ever-increasing constraints, from deep funding cuts and political headwinds to entrenched exclusionary systems, limited time, leadership turnover, and burnout. Too often, research is disconnected from real-world challenges, and separated from real-time learning and practice.
How can education research support K-12 systems where all educators and students can thrive?
We think this question calls on researchers, educators, policymakers, and funders to work together in new ways. With our partners, we reimagine how education research can be produced, valued, adapted, and rooted in day-to-day work. We look for ways to gather diverse perspectives to bring about meaningful change in schools and communities across the country.
We work as curious researchers seeking to understand how research is developed and used in education, and as active designers of tools and experiences that weave together ideas from research, policy, and practice.
We believe that...
Research that flows and adapts with learning and is co-designed with practitioners and policymakers can build durable systems that work for students, educators, and communities.
HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR WORK
users to date of the RPP Health and Effectiveness Toolkit
national and international participants in collaborative development of: Towards a Field for Collaborative Education Research: Developing a framework for the Complexity of Necessary Learning
RPPs, including over 300 individuals, involved in the RPP State of the Field report
citations of our research
in grant funding from major education research funders
