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The School of Education maintains long-standing partnerships with school districts in the Denver-Boulder metropolitan area. District partners improve the quality of university programs by sending clinical professors to team-teach at CU-Boulder and by providing practicum and student teaching experiences for our students. Likewise, CU faculty members work with teachers on implementing research-based practices and evaluating curriculum and instruction. Partner districts also participate in the Partners in Education (PIE) program, which is a Master’s degree pathway for new teachers that offers extensive professional development with expert mentors

Professors Bill Penuel (EPSY) and Derek Briggs (REM) have received a $5 million grant to create and lead a new National Center for Research in Policy and Practice, together with colleagues Cynthia Coburn, of the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education; Heather Hill, of the Harvard Graduate School of Education; and James Spillane of the Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy.

a new center that will study how educational leaders—including school district supervisors and principals—use research when making decisions and what can be done to make research findings more useful and relevant for those leaders.

focusing on three areas: measuring current research use in schools, identifying what conditions affect when research is used, and determining ways that research could be made more meaningful for educational leaders through long-term partnerships between researchers and practitioners.