About Practice
By Joshua Rosenberg
About PracticeJan 31, 2021
14: On a Virtual Ski Lift: (Democratizing the Development of Evidence with Cara Jackson, Ph.D.)
About Cara Jackson, Ph.D.
Dr. Jackson is Senior Associate in the Division of Social and Economic Policy at Abt Associates. She's conducted education research and evidence reviews on a variety of topics, including interventions intended to improve child outcomes, policies related to school and teacher quality, and school network expansion. Her focus is on helping schools, districts, and education agencies improve the quality of educational opportunities.
Links
Articles:
- Democratizing the Development of Evidence https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0013189X211060357
- Rethinking Connections Between Research and Practice in Education https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0013189X18761042
- Local Democracy Matters: How Deliberative Culture Shapes Public Evaluations of Local Government and Local Government Performance (Collins) https://edworkingpapers.com/ai19-114
- Will The American Rescue Plan’s ‘Meaningful Consultation’ Requirement Usher In Community Participation In School Budgets? (Roza) https://www.forbes.com/sites/margueriteroza/2021/07/20/will-the-american-rescue-plans-meaningful-consultation-requirement-usher-in-community-participation-in-school-budgets/
Logic models:
- Education Logic Model application https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/rel/products/resource/100677
- https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/appalachia/blogs/blog6_why-build-a-logic-model.asp
- https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/pacific/pdf/REL_2014025.pdf
Organizations:
- Strategic Data Project https://sdp.cepr.harvard.edu/
- NNERPP https://nnerpp.rice.edu/
- Democratizing Evidence https://www.democratizingevidence4.us/home
13: Not good, not bad: A discussion about social media in education
In this episode, Ryan and Josh speak with Jeff Carpenter and Catharyn Shelton about their recent article on education influencers (co-authored with Stephanie Schroeder). Jeff, Catharyn, and Stephanie's article is "The education influencer: A new player in the educator professional landscape" and was published in the Journal of Research on Technology in Education earlier this year: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15391523.2022.2030267
Jeff is jeffpcarpenter on Twitter
Catharyn is catharynshelton on Twitter
Ryan is ry_estrellado on Twitter and Instagram
Josh is jrosenberg6432 on Twitter
Music: Rabbit Hole by Blue Dot Sessions
12: Slightly Discouraged and Hairier
11: These are a few of our favorite things (from the past year)
Favorite Books
Jennifer Pharr Davis, Called Again: A Story of Love and Triumph: https://www.amazon.com/Called-Again-Story-Love-Triumph/dp/0825307457/ref=sr_1_3?crid=146PQGU0VL5ED&keywords=jennifer+pharr+davis&qid=1639603954&sprefix=jennifer+pharr%2Caps%2C155&sr=8-3
Norman Ollesta, Crazy for the Storym: A Memoir of Survival: https://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Storm-Memoir-Survival-P-S/dp/006176678X
Michael Frome, Strangers in High Places: The Story of the Great Smoky Mountains: https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-High-Places-Mountains-Expanded/dp/0870498061/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=strangers+in+high+places&qid=1639604028&s=books&sr=1-1
Richard Powers, Bewilderment: https://www.amazon.com/Bewilderment-Novel-Richard-Powers-ebook/dp/B08X19W2HD/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1S69Y30962ZDV&keywords=bewilderment+richard+powers&qid=1639604051&s=books&sprefix=bewilder%2Cstripbooks%2C159&sr=1-2
David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triump in a Specialized World: https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized-World/dp/0735214484
Jessica Abel, Out on the Wire: https://www.amazon.com/Out-Wire-Storytelling-Secrets-Masters/dp/0385348436/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1V5XF9FVLPZ1E&keywords=jessica+abel+out+on+the+wire&qid=1639604149&sprefix=jessica+abel+out+on+%2Cstripbooks%2C156&sr=8-1
John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet: https://www.amazon.com/The-Anthropocene-Reviewed/dp/B08GL11MDJ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2298PFMDEK5YU&keywords=the+anthropocene+reviewed&qid=1639604178&sprefix=the+anthro%2Caps%2C192&sr=8-1
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library: https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Library-Novel-Matt-Haig/dp/0525559477
Favorite Podcasts
Conversations With Tyler: Zeynep Tufekci: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/zeynep-tufekci/
The Anthropocene Reviewed, Icelandic Hot Dog Stand and Signing Your Name 250,000 Times: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/icelandic-hot-dog-stand-and-signing-your-name-250-000-times/id1342003491?i=1000522165954
Favorite Creative Projects
#fountainpen (Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/fountainpen/
Why it can be hard to understand the Smokies (and a bit on my understanding of them): https://joshuamrosenberg.com/post/2021/08/21/a-bunch-of-thoughts-on-the-tennessee-side-of-the-great-smoky-mountains-national-park/
Favorite Movie
The French Dispatch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8847712/
Ryan is ry_estrellado on Twitter and Instagram
Josh is jrosenberg6432 on Twitter
10: Distribute Your Imposter Syndrome (All About Ryan's New Book!)
Preorder The K–12 Educator's Data Guidebook: Reimagining Practical Data Use in Schools
What people are saying about Ryan's new book
The social media influencer in Ryan's story is honestteachervibes. Her account is hilarious. You should totally follow!
Ryan is ry_estrellado on Twitter and Instagram
Josh is jrosenberg6432 on Twitter
9: You help me, I help you
In this episode, Ryan and Josh welcome Isabella C. Velásquez to About Practice to discuss the roles of philanthropic organizations in education. They also discuss Isabella's work and share some stories from a collaborative project on which they worked.
Isabella
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Ryan:
Music: Rabbit Hole by Blue Dot Sessions
8: First Things First, I'm a Realist (Dr. Ji Son, Part 2)
7: Move Close to Your Router (Dr. Ji Son, Part 1)
Welcome to the About Practice podcast, a show about bridging the gap between research and practice in education. In this episode that is part one of a two-part interview, Josh and Ryan speak with Dr. Ji Son (@cogscimom on Twitter) at California State University, Los Angeles about learning through finding connections between concepts - and how ideas generated through research could be translated into practical forms for education.
Resources:
- Introduction to Statistics: A Modeling Approach
- CourseKata
- The Better Book Project
- "Practicing Connections: A Framework to Guide Instructional Design for Developing Understanding in Complex Domains"
- "Modeling first: Applying learning science to the teaching of introductory statistics"
- Power Women: Stories of Motherhood, Faith, and the Academy
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Josh on Twitter
Music: Rabbit Hole by Blue Dot Sessions
6. It's Not the Furniture
Welcome to the About Practice podcast, a show about bridging the gap between research and practice in education. In this episode Josh and Ryan reflect on conversations during the last two episodes with Dr. Frances Harper and Lauren Parker.
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Music: Rabbit Hole by Blue Dot Sessions
5: Unsigned Spreadsheets (with School Psychologist Lauren Parker)
Welcome to the About Practice podcast, a show about bridging the gap between research and practice in education. In this episode Josh and Ryan talk with Lauren Parker. Lauren Parker is a school psychologist passionate about social-emotional learnin g, mental health, and student growth. Follow Lauren on Twitter @LParker_PsyS
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4: Solving World Problems (With Math!)
Welcome to the About Practice podcast, a show about bridging the gap between research and practice in education. In this episode Josh and Ryan talk with Dr. Frances Harper of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dr. Harper's work focuses on equity in math education.
Follow Dr. Harper's projects, writing, and updates on her website francesharper.com. You can also follow Dr. Harper on Twitter at worldmathprobs.
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3: The Hygiene Dilemma
Welcome to the About Practice podcast, a show about bridging the gap between research and practice in education. In this episode Josh and Ryan talk about getting on Clubhouse, ethics and research, what a rabbit hole is, citing articles that are themselves cited in other articles, and Ryan's new Practical Data Use newsletter
- Clubhouse: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/
- The podcast in which a journalist joined a Clubhouse chat about them!
- Subscribe to Ryan's Practical Data use newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/25cd9ce3ce44/k12-educators-data-activities
- There are far more than 1 million terabytes of data on the Internet https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/how-much-data-is-on-the-internet/#:~:text=One%20way%20to%20answer%20this,one%20terabyte%20is%201%2C000%20gigabytes)
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2: One Book and the Rest Are Blog Posts
Welcome to the About Practice podcast, a show about bridging the gap between re- search and practice in education. In this episode Josh and Ryan talk about why they wanted to do a show like this, how they do research for their projects, the practical problems of consuming research, and why the Allen Iverson Talking About Practice in- terview is a surprisingly good analogy for education research.
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Show Notes:
- Zotero: http://zotero.com/
- Learning to improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better: https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/resources/publications/learning-to-improve/
- How we research: A look inside the buffer blog process: https://buffer.com/resources/how-we-research-a-look-inside-the-buffer-blog-process/
- Amanda Datnow’s Google Scholar Citations page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=08LPN1YAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
- Google Alerts: https://www.google.com/alerts
- Create a Google Scholar Citations account: https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/citations.html
- Connecting Google Scholar Citations to a library: https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/faq/how-can-i-connect-google-scholar-librarys-resources
- Following authors on Google Scholar Citations: https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/googlescholar2/
- Data-driven Leadership by Datnow and Park (2014): https://www.amazon.com/Data-Driven-Leadership-Jossey-Bass-Library-Education/dp/0470594799 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=08LPN1YAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
1: Hypothesis Testing for Kids is Basically Torture
Welcome to the About Practice podcast, a show about bridging the gap between research and practice in education. In this episode Josh and Ryan talk about why they wanted to do a show like this, how they do research for their projects, the practical problems of consuming research, and why the Allen Iverson Talking About Practice interview is a surprisingly good analogy for education research.
References:
- Barry, John M. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History. Penguin Books, 2005.
- Aschwanden, Christie. “Science Isn’t Broken.” Fivethirtyeight, 19 Aug. 2015, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/
- Iverson, Allen. Interview, https://youtu.be/tknXRyUEJtU
- Sudeikis, Jason, performer. Ted Lasso, season 1, episode 6, https://youtu.be/wYS6cRizP-M
Twitter:
- Joshua Rosenberg: jrosenberg6432
- Ryan Estrellado: RyanEs
0: Now We're Talking About Practice?
This is our first mini-episode and can be thought of as Episode 0 - it is a brief a excerpt from a longer episode that we will release soon. For now, please take a listen; let us know what you think; and, follow along!
Ryan Estrellado: @RyanEs; https://ryanestrellado.com/
Joshua Rosenberg: @jrosenberg6432; https://joshuamrosenberg.com