NNERPP Newsletter 9(15): NNERPP Annual Forum | teachers | English Learners

NNERPP ANNUAL FORUM
It was Annual Forum week last week! We were so excited to welcome new and old friends to the most special event we host all year. For our tenth annual gathering, we were thrilled to visit NNERPP member Institute for School Partnership (ISP) based at Washington University in St. Louis!

With the help of 88 session facilitators, this year’s agenda included over 35 collaborative learning sessions aiming to spark connectivity, reflection, and joy. We also took time to “meet the moment” as a community during a special session that invited us to ponder this year’s theme, “Meeting the Moment: Connection, Collaboration, and Creativity for the Long Term.”

We had a fantastic time connecting, learning, and having fun together!

THANK YOU
We absolutely loved hosting our NNERPP community at the Forum and feel honored that this amazing group of RPPers chose to share their time and wisdom with us. A special thank you goes to our fabulous group of facilitators and to our wonderful locals and co-hosts ISP for offering tremendous support!

We would also like to acknowledge our family of funders, whose continuing support makes the Annual Forum and NNERPP possible: The Gates Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, and The Wallace Foundation. We are also incredibly grateful to our home, the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, for critical operational support.

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BULLETIN BOARD • Quick RPP news, updates, events, & invites

The Education Research Alliance for New Orleans is launching a series of initiatives to reflect on two decades of public education reform in New Orleans as the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches: An in-person event on August 23rd (you can register now!), a new video series summarizing key findings (to be released on the ERA-New Orleans website in August), and a collaborative chapter with the Brookings Institution and The Data Center (to be published by Brookings on August 8th). Also check out their recently released landmark report.
The NYC Early Childhood Research Network will be hosting a new set of interactive research-to-practice webinars this fall. You can subscribe to the Research Network mailing list to receive an invitation.

Share your quick RPP news, updates, events, & invites here to be included in an upcoming newsletter! (1-2 sentences)

INVITATION: SHARE ABOUT YOUR UPCOMING CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS!
Hey, NNERPP! Are you presenting at a conference and would like to share that with the NNERPP community? Let us know where you’ll be presenting and we’ll share it in an upcoming newsletter to make it easier for NNERPP colleagues to find and learn from each other at the various conferences we all attend. Please submit upcoming presentations HERE whenever you’d like to share them with the larger NNERPP community!

DID YOU KNOW?

Registration for the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) 2025 conference is now open! Find out more and register here.
Conference dates: October 8-11, 2025
Conference theme: Education in Context: Research, Systems, and the Future of Evidence-Based Change

Registration for the 47th annual APPAM Annual Fall Research Conference is now open! Find out more and register here.
Conference dates: November 13-15, 2025
Conference theme: Forging Collaborations for Transformative and Resilient Policy Solutions

EVENTS

NNERPP ANNUAL FORUM: Hey, Annual Forum participants! Thank you so much for joining us last week! If you haven’t done so yet, please check your inboxes for our most recent Annual Forum email, which includes reminders for:
• How to tell us more about your Annual Forum experience in our Forum evaluation, so we know what went great and where we can improve for next year
• How to access Forum session slides and materials that may be helpful for team debriefs of what you learned

Once again, thank you so much for being part of this year’s NNERPP Annual Forum!

NNERPP aims to develop and support RPPs in education in order to improve the connection between research, policy, and practice.

NNERPP is made possible by the generous funding support of the Gates Foundation,
William T. Grant Foundation, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, and The Wallace Foundation.

For more information about NNERPP, please visit our website: nnerpp.rice.edu