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.

Featured Items

SERP Annual Report, 2025

“SERP’s progress reflects the commitment of educators, researchers, district partners, funders, and staff who contribute their expertise and trust to long-term collaborations.“


Suzanne Donovan

SERP Founding Executive Director

Unlocking Success for Struggling Adolescent Readers

This EdWeek Webinar brought together educators from across the country to share how they’re supporting students who are reading below grade level and building stronger engagement and comprehension in middle and high school classrooms.

K-2 Literacy Professional Resources

New research-based online courses and companion resources designed to support highly effective literacy instruction are now available.

A SERP Success Story

This lively nine-minute video documents how SERP's free WordGen Weekly program started this New York City middle school on a path from struggling and under-enrolled to laser-focused on academic language, evidence-based argumentation, and critical analysis.

More SERP Resources

Featured Blog Posts

By Avery Jones • October 13, 2026
Disrupting Grants, AI Cheating, Supporting English Learners
The Las Vegas Sphere lit up for Teach For America’s 35th Anniversary Summit.
By Kala Jones, Ph.D. • October 7, 2026
Kala Jones describes her experience at the TFA Summit
Margaret Troyer at TFA Summit
By Margaret Troyer, Ed.D. • October 7, 2026
Margaret Troyer describes her experience at the TFA Summit.
September 23, 2026
When Jennifer Joynt became a principal in the South Bronx, she inherited a problem she couldn't ignore: students were arriving at her middle school reading two or more years below grade level, and the interventions available to help them weren't working.
By Emily Hayden, Ph.D • September 11, 2026
P. David Pearson passed away in late August, and literacy scholars across the field are taking time to reflect on the impact of his life and work. He was a mentor to many of the leading literacy scholars who are driving the work of teaching reading in classrooms today. He authored a multitude of journal articles and book chapters, and the number of conference presentations, policy briefs, and other contributions is honestly a tally best left to others. He was a true influencer in education before "influencer" was a word.
By Emily Hayden, Ph.D. • September 4, 2026
Talking to parents about their students' reading progress can be difficult. And once students move into middle school and high school, juggling multiple teachers in a single day, communication with families can easily fall by the wayside. But it's crucially important.
Video Showing Locations of Product Downloads

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