Deep and reciprocal connections between practice and research

SERP stimulates innovation in education through sustained collaborations among distinguished researchers, educators, and designers. SERP partnerships expand the capacity for continuous improvement while remaining mindful of what teachers do, how schools operate, and how students learn.
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Announcements

  • SERP Partners with The Center for Applied Special Technology

    The Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) has invited SERP to enter a five-year partnership to expand a portion of SERP's current curriculum development work using the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). This CAST-led research and development effort will create and evaluate a comprehensive middle school Literacy Ecosystem in which learning-disabled students, struggling readers, and teachers can thrive. As a part of the proposed work, SERP's Strategic Adolescent Reading Intervention (STARI) will be modified and supported according to UDL principles of multiple means of representation, action, and engagement.

Thanks to SERP Funders and Sponsors

Carol Johnson “SERP is really about connecting the dots between research, practice, and learning. I think there are some real lessons to be learned through the SERP model, and I'm excited about the work we're doing here [in Boston], but I look forward to seeing the results of this process being put in place in other districts.”

Carol Johnson,
Superintendent, Boston Public Schools
other collaborators

Comments from the field

How can researchers respond to the development of the Common Core State Standards?

Irvin Scott
Chief Academic Officer
Boston Public Schools

Catherine Snow
Professor
Harvard University

Anthony S. Bryk
President
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Alan Schoenfeld
Professor
University of California, Berkeley
  • See also comments and presentations from Phil Daro who played an instrumental role in the development of the standards.