2023 MERC Summit

Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium

The 2023 summit of the Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium will build connections across education research, policy, and practice.

Highland Springs High School

<h2>C﻿ONNECTING RESEARCH, POLICY, AND PRACTICE THROUGH SHIFTING PARADIGMS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION</h2><p>The past three years have been transformative for public education. As the world grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic, public school systems had to rapidly adapt their approach while ensuring the safety of their students, staff, and families. This led to multiple school years that looked radically different, ranging from fully remote instruction to hybrid learning to the more “traditional” in-person model for schooling. But, what would we consider a “normal” paradigm for public education to be now? The ways that educators approach their practice, families engage with schools, and students navigate their learning have changed. Schools have continuously reimagined their work, adapting former connections and forging new ones to further the mission of public education in shifting sociopolitical contexts. At the 2023 MERC Summit, stakeholders from educational research, policy, and practice will come together to explore all that we have navigated, learned, and gained during this formative period in public schools while sharing ideas for addressing enduring and emerging challenges.</p><h3>The goals of the summit are:</h3><p>1. To offer interactive sessions where educational practitioners, researchers, and policymakers can learn together and collaborate on strategies to address prominent issues in public schools.</p><p>2. To explore innovative approaches to supporting K-12 students, educators, and families.</p><p>3. To learn from locally-developed research exploring trends, outcomes, and recommendations specific to metropolitan Richmond schools.</p><p>4. To leverage the benefits of research-practice partnerships between universities and K-12 public school systems by forging meaningful connections between stakeholders.</p><p>The summit format will focus on collaborative sessions where attendees are invited to actively contribute their ideas and expertise. P﻿articipants will receive a certificate for 8 contact hours for continuing education credit.</p><h3><a href="https://www.eventcreate.com/e/mercsummit2023" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">V﻿iew the program here.</a></h3>

Agenda

Check-in/Coffee

Opening Session

Breakout One

Breakout Two

Lunch

Breakout Three

Breakout Four

Closing Student Panel

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