In this episode, Dr. Vanessa Rosa explores what an education system that has successfully bridged the research-practice gap would look like. She discusses three key hallmarks: prioritizing practice-based evidence, establishing systemic incentives for integration, and fostering embedded researcher-practitioner collaborations.

🎧 Core Audience

* Science educators seeking innovative, evidence-based teaching strategies

* Educational researchers interested in collaborating with practitioners

* Policymakers and administrators looking to support research-practice integration

* STEM education advocates committed to advancing equitable, engaging learning experiences

📋 Topics Covered

* The research-practice gap in education and its impact on student learning

* Critical elements of an integrated education system that bridges research and practice

* Practice-based evidence and its role in informing evidence-based instruction

* Systemic incentives and policies to support researcher-practitioner collaboration

* Embedded researcher-practitioner collaborations and their benefits for education reform

⌚️ Helpful Time Stamps:

00:00 - Introduction and overview

04:16 - Visualizing a reformed system

05:01 - Defining the research-practice gap

07:24 - Practice-based evidence vs. evidence-based instruction

10:49 - Systemic incentives to support integration

13:40 - Embedded researcher-practitioner collaborations

17:37 - Conclusion and call to action

🗝️ Key Takeaways

* Valuing practice-based evidence alongside controlled experiments can lead to more context-specific, effective teaching strategies.

* Systemic incentives, such as promotion criteria, funding streams, and professional development, foster research-practice integration.

* Embedded researcher-practitioner collaborations enable real-time problem-solving, accessible research dissemination, and continuous feedback loops.

* Bridging the research-practice gap can create more equitable, engaging, and empowering learning environments that enable all students to thrive.

📄 Useful Resources

* Corresponding Blog Post: www.cuvettecollective.org/closedrpgap/

* Cuvette Collective's professional learning community: cuvetteempowered.org

* Cuvette Collective's consulting firm: cuvettecatalyzed.org

* The Cuvette, a peer-reviewed journal for science education: thecuvette.org

🎙️ About the Hosts

Dr. Vanessa Rosa:

* Advocate for science education reform and founder of Cuvette Collective.

* Passionate about transforming science education and challenging academic conventions.

* Expertise in science education research, curriculum development, and assessment.

Connect with Dr. Rosa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessarosaphd/

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🎯 Target Audience

This content would be most helpful to educators, researchers, and policy makers interested in understanding the impact of different framing strategies on policy support.

📋 Topics Covered

1. The concept of framing and its impact on understanding and policy support,

2. The effects of different framing strategies - empathy, interdependence, ingenuity, and prevention - on policy support, and

3. The implications of these findings for educators and policy makers.

⌚️ Helpful Time Stamps:

00:00 - Vanessa's experience as a graduate student

01:15 - Understanding of framing

02:49 - Discussion on empathy

04:10 - Discussion on interdependence

05:24 - Discussion on ingenuity

06:31 - Discussion on prevention

07:34 - Summary of findings

07:54 - Implications and conclusion

💃🏽 Call to Action

How can we use these findings to frame our messages more effectively? How can we ensure that our framing strategies align with our audience's cultural values to promote support for systemic reform?

Let's discuss this in the chat.

🎙️ About the Host

Dr. Rosa promotes equity in science education, challenging traditional norms and oppressive systems. She leads several organizations focused on empowering diverse educators and driving systemic improvements. Here, and through these organizations, she aims to foster a community of supportive educators who will transform science education and research.

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🎯 Target Audience

This content would be most helpful to scholars and researchers who publish their work in academic journals and are frustrated with the barriers it imposes on impacting their field.

📋 Topics Covered

In the final installment of our trilogy on academic publishing, we discuss the future of academic publishing:

1. Where it's gone wrong,

2. How to address it, and

3. What scholars can do while we wait for these changes to become the norm.

📄 Demystifying academic publishing: A Researcher's guide to ethical journals: https://www.thecuvette.org/pub/zy5kna35 (⬅️ the infographic).

⌚️ Helpful Time Stamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:37 - The roots of toxic academic publishing

03:18 - Supplanting ethical publishing practices

05:34 - How will we pay for publishing reform?

11:11 - What can we do while reform becomes the norm?

💃🏽 Call to Action

Support alternatives to traditional academic publishers that don't paywall the work, charge authors to publish, subsume their intellectual property rights, or obscure the selection and peer review processes. Here are some examples:

* Science Education Research: https://www.thecuvette.org

* Pre-Print Reviews: https://prereview.org

* Directory of Open Access Journals: https://doaj.org

Feel free to post in the chat if you need any help finding a journal for your discipline:

🎙️ About the Host

Dr. Rosa promotes equity in science education, challenging traditional norms and oppressive systems. She leads several organizations focused on empowering diverse educators and driving systemic improvements. Here, and through these organizations, she aims to foster a community of supportive educators who will transform science education and research.

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If you found this content helpful, please consider subscribing to, sharing, and rating the podcast. Subscriptions are voluntary and work to keep this content ad-free and freely available.

🎯 Target Audience

This content would be most helpful to those who write and research academic journals.

📋 Topics Covered

1. The exploitative nature of academic publishing,

2. The role of prestige in perpetuating the system, and

3. The impacts on stakeholders and scientific progress.

⌚️ Helpful Time Stamps:

00:00 - Intro

01:21 - Why Taxpayers Support Exploitative Publishing

02:31 - Government Resistance to Reform

03:49 - Why Researchers and Universities Perpetuate the System

06:39 - The Root of the Problem: Prestige and Perceived Quality

07:56 - Impacts on Stakeholders and Scientific Progress

09:52 - Hopes to Align Incentives with Science Advancement

💃🏽 Call to Action

What do you think about the suggestions for resisting the academic publishing system from within and without academia?

Let's talk about it in the chat.

🎙️ About the Host

Dr. Rosa promotes equity in science education, challenging traditional norms and oppressive systems. She leads several organizations focused on empowering diverse educators and driving systemic improvements. Here, and through these organizations, she aims to foster a community of supportive educators who will transform science education and research.

🙌🏽 Support the Podcast

If you found this content helpful, please consider subscribing to, sharing, and rating the podcast. Subscriptions are voluntary and work to keep this content ad-free and freely available.

🎯 Target Audience

This content would be most helpful to those who write and research academic journals.

📋 Topics Covered

1. The extractive business model of traditional academic publishing,

2. The lack of compensation for academic authors, and

3. The high cost of journal subscriptions.

⌚️ Helpful Time Stamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:42 - Disclaimer

01:08 - Business Model Overview

02:16 - Example: Café

03:32 - Academic Publishing Model

04:30 - An Extractive Model

05:30 - Conclusion

💃🏽 Call to Action

Can you think of other business models that are as extractive and unsustainable as academic publishing? Why do we, as researchers, continue to use extortive publishers to disseminate our work?

Let's talk about it in the chat.

🎙️ About the Host

Dr. Rosa promotes equity in science education, challenging traditional norms and oppressive systems. She leads several organizations focused on empowering diverse educators and driving systemic improvements. Here, and through these organizations, she aims to foster a community of supportive educators who will transform science education and research.

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🎯 Target Audience

This content would be most helpful to researchers seeking to understand how they impact their research and content on positionality or other reflexive practices.

📋 Topics Covered

1. What positionality is,

2. The controversy surrounding positionality in research, and

3. How to write an effective positionality statement.

⌚️ Helpful Time Stamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:22 - Storytime

03:47 - What is positionality?

07:29 - The positionality controversy

13:04 - Why a researcher's credibility is their positionality

16:05 - How to write a positionality statement (10 steps)

💃🏽 Call to Action

Take a moment to reflect on how who you are impacts what you do as a researcher.

Let's talk about it in the chat.

🎙️ About the Host

Dr. Rosa promotes equity in science education, challenging traditional norms and oppressive systems. She leads several organizations focused on empowering diverse educators and driving systemic improvements. Here, and through these organizations, she aims to foster a community of supportive educators who will transform science education and research.

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How can natural hierarchies inform the hierarchies we create?

🎯 Target Audience

This content would be most helpful to scholars in the academic system (administrators, researchers, professors, and students) looking for helpful content on academic hierarchies and alternative models.

📋 Topics Covered

1. How natural hierarchies like molecules and cells self-organize for optimal functioning.

2. How academic hierarchies concentrate power and can be oppressive.

3. Alternative academic models include democratic governance, cooperatives, peer networks, open access, and restorative justice.

⌚️ Helpful Time Stamps

00:00 - Intro

00:18 - Hierarchies in the natural world...

02:42 - Human-constructed hierarchies...

04:03 - Comparing natural and human-made hierarchical systems...

06:17 - This history of the academic hierarchy...

07:11 - Alternatives to academic hierarchies...

09:16 - Resisting the academic hierarchy from within...

11:34 - Conclusion

💃🏽 Call to Action

Engage in discussions about academic hierarchies, take action within your role, and keep envisioning and building more egalitarian academic models.

🎙️ About the Host

Dr. Rosa promotes equity in science education, challenging traditional norms and oppressive systems. She leads several organizations focused on empowering diverse educators and driving systemic improvements. Here, and through these organizations, she aims to foster a community of supportive educators who will transform science education and research.

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If you found this content helpful, please consider subscribing to, sharing, and rating the podcast. Subscriptions are voluntary and work to keep this content ad-free and freely available.

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