SERP Institute
Bridging Research, Practice, and Design in Education
The Strategic Education Research Partnership generates innovative, scalable solutions to our schools’ most pressing problems through sustained collaborations among education researchers, practitioners, and designers. We work to improve the learning and engagement of all students and to give teachers and students greater agency.
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I started the SERP Stories Podcast with a research question. What does it look like when research and practice truly work together? Clean. Answerable. The kind of question you can build a season around.
This spring, I had the privilege of meeting educators from across the state of Minnesota at a series of invited vendor fairs. Their message was consistent and clear: they are searching for evidence-based strategies and materials that support effective literacy instruction for students in grades 6 and up who are still developing the complex reading skills needed for academic success.
I’m not a natural language learner. I studied Spanish for six years before living in Spain finally made me bilingual, and I’ve never forgotten how it feels to sit in a room where the language is moving faster than you can hold onto it.
When Natasha Balkcom's principal asked if she'd like to teach a reading intervention class at her New York City high school, the answer came easily. After several years teaching English to 9th and 10th graders at Metropolitan Soundview High School, Natasha knew the need was real and she was ready to meet it.
According to Tynesha Banks, a New York City teacher, many students enter her seventh grade class never having read an entire novel. When she guides them through reading a whole novel, she says, “they feel success in that, like I actually read this entire book, and I understood what was going on, and I was able to finish it from start to finish.”
For more than two decades, SERP has been well known for its work in adolescent literacy , partnering with educators to design and study instructional approaches that support students during the often neglected middle and high school years.
Watch how the use of SERP materials has expanded throughout the nation over the last five years.
Our Funders
Abell Foundation
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Goldman Sachs Foundation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Haan Foundation for Children
Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Dept of Education
Intel Foundation
Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation
John S. and Catherine L. Reed Foundation
Koshland Foundation
Leon Lowenstein Foundation
National Academy of Sciences
National Science Foundation
Office of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Dept of Education
Robert Noyce Foundation
S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation
Simons Foundation
Spencer Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation