Goals of the Center

Goal #1: Knowledge Generation

NCRED serves as the institutional home for the generation of knowledge projects grounded in evidence-based outcomes for understanding and advancing educator diversity.

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NCRED will advance innovative knowledge projects dedicated to understanding ethnoracial diversity. An example of one of our knowledge projects is, the Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers which addresses key issues and obstacles to ethnoracial diversity across the life course of teachers’ careers, such as recruitment and retention, professional development, and the role of minority-serving institutions.

Goal #1: Knowledge Generation

NCRED serves as the institutional home for the generation of knowledge projects grounded in evidence-based outcomes for understanding and advancing educator diversity.

Read more about our academic projects

NCRED will advance innovative knowledge projects dedicated to understanding ethnoracial diversity. An example of one of our knowledge projects is, the Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers which addresses key issues and obstacles to ethnoracial diversity across the life course of teachers’ careers, such as recruitment and retention, professional development, and the role of minority-serving institutions.

Goal #2: Dissemination of Evidence-base

NCRED facilitates the dissemination of research and practitioner scholarship across a wide range of researchers, scholars and practitioners.

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Now more than ever it is important that research informs policy and practice in meaningful ways. The Kappan Special Report is an example of the center’s commitment to producing knowledge products that can be used and practiced by policy intermediaries and practitioners. This special report includes a research brief for each of the handbook’s eleven domains of inquiry. A teacher testimony is included for each research area in an effort to center the voices of BIPOC educators in a way that can inform practice.

Goal #3: Applied Research in Praxis

NCRED serves as an organizing hub for innovative research practice partnerships (RPPs) committed to applying educator diversity research in praxis.

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NCRED establishes mutually beneficial working relationships with the local community and district partners to pilot research-practice partnerships (RPP) focused on a problem of practice related to ethnoracial educator diversity.

RPPs are characterized by strategic collaboration. NCRED is developing new ways of bridging research and practice related to teacher development systems by incorporating multiple and diverse perspectives to inform the work and integrating thoughtful consideration of the varied roles partners play. Community partners are an important part of the RPP and include community liaisons within the school district as well as leaders from non-profit, community-based organizations, and local schools.

Goal #3: Applied Research in Praxis

NCRED serves as an organizing hub for innovative research practice partnerships (RPPs) committed to applying educator diversity research in praxis.

Read more about our RPP Vision

NCRED establishes mutually beneficial working relationships with the local community and district partners to pilot research-practice partnerships (RPP) focused on a problem of practice related to ethnoracial educator diversity.

RPPs are characterized by strategic collaboration. NCRED is developing new ways of bridging research and practice related to teacher development systems by incorporating multiple and diverse perspectives to inform the work and integrating thoughtful consideration of the varied roles partners play. Community partners are an important part of the RPP and include community liaisons within the school district as well as leaders from non-profit, community-based organizations, and local schools.