St. Louis Research-Practice Collaborative

02/20/2024

🎓✨ New Insights on STL Student Mobility! Our latest study reveals the unique challenges of high student transfer rates in St. Louis, impacting student education and consistency. Conducted with partners AT Washington University in St. Louis, Slu Prime KIPP St. Louis Confluence Academies and others, we explore the effects of mid-year school transfers and highlight educator-proposed solutions. 📚🔄

Learn more about our findings and how educators propose to address this issue: www.stlrpc.org/student-mobility

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11/13/2023

Three fabulous members of our team — Dr. Saras Chung (SKIP DesignEd), Dr. Candice Carter-Oliver (Confluence Academies), and Dr. Jason Jabbari (WashU) — presented to the Social Policy Institute at Wash U last week for their series on using data for good. Watch them discuss the importance of sharing education data across school systems, what we're learning, and why it matters to educators!

10/23/2023

Learn more about our work: https://www.stlrpc.org/reports/mobility

08/31/2023

The SRPC is working hard to give educators the knowledge they need and the answers they want to some of these difficult, but surmountable, challenges in St. Louis schools!

There's no single barrier that can be removed to clear away the challenges facing St. Louis' public schools. Academic achievement is stagnant. Schools operate at half-capacity in a city that's

06/16/2023

Collaboration and partnership are part of our core, so it's great to see this special ed co-operative getting off the ground to help children in St. Louis.

The charters are pooling resources to try to streamline special education services and cut contractor costs.

06/12/2023

families and educators: You can be what jelly is to peanut butter by participating in our student mobility surveys. Answers will enhance (jelly!) the understanding of our data analysis (the peanut butter). Learn more and take the survey:

stlrpc.org/participate

Help Inform Our Work Has your family experienced school mobility? As an educator, has your classroom seen high turnover? If you or your child has changed schools mid-year or before completing elementary, middle, or high school, you can help inform our research and development of strategies to reduce...

05/25/2023

Has your family experienced school mobility?

As an educator, has your classroom seen high turnover?

Help inform our work and earn a gift card. Learn more about participating in a survey or interview:

Help Inform Our Work Has your family experienced school mobility? As an educator, has your classroom seen high turnover? If you or your child has changed schools mid-year or before completing elementary, middle, or high school, you can help inform our research and development of strategies to reduce...

04/19/2023

Why is student mobility an important thing to understand, and work to reduce? Moving between schools frequently can cause children to fall behind by up to a year’s worth of learning. Read more from : https://www.stlrpc.org/projects/mobility

03/24/2023

From The Post-Dispatch's editorial board: "When top administrators of St. Louis Public Schools and the city’s two largest charter districts unite to deliver an important educational message, St. Louisans should take notice."

We agree!

When top administrators of St. Louis Public Schools and the city’s two largest charter districts unite to deliver an important educational message, St. Louisans should take notice. These are school

03/21/2023

Have you or anyone you know moved OUT of St. Louis City with PreK-12 grade kids? SKIP is working with St. Louis City school leaders to understand and enhance family experiences with education in the city. Pass this along to anyone who might qualify. Thank you!

Survey: https://wustl.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6yQVJm48ahEykp8?fbclid=IwAR1WZ340wlzwuwXPgs474B-YjCiqu6WrylayLRCJZ8bGusq2wT85TqiJuzg

This is an anonymous survey for parents/guardians of children, ages 0-18, who once lived in St. Louis City but have since moved away.

03/09/2023

"The common narrative of traditional school districts versus charters isn’t accurate. This is not the first time we’ve worked together as school leaders and through partnerships like the St. Louis Research-Practice Collaborative, it won’t be the last. We may compete to run the best schools, but none of us will succeed if we fail to keep our children in a stable school environment."

The leaders of our K-12 school partners wrote this opinion piece. Give it a read!

https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/columnists/williams-and-carter-oliver-teaming-up-to-reduce-student-mobility-in-our-schools/article_c000b664-50a9-5515-947d-3531c3468a8e.html"

Visit one of our kindergarten classrooms on the first day of school and know that many of those children will not still be classmates at the end of sixth grade.