The Madison Education Partnership (MEP), a research-practice partnership between the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) and the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD), has posted its latest request for proposals for sponsored work funding for 2020-21.
The funding will support research from UW–Madison faculty, research staff, and advanced graduate students (with a faculty member as principal investigator) on topics of interest to MMSD. While MEP is open to a variety of topics and research approaches, all funded studies must:
- Make explicit connection to issues of equity, such as documenting inequities, exploring means of disrupting inequities, and/or engaging in research on anti-racist teaching;
- Address one or more goals in the MMSD Strategic Framework; and
- Seek to offer actionable recommendations to MMSD leaders.
In response to the pressing needs of this moment, MEP has made changes to the process it has used in past years. For this funding cycle, it wants to cultivate new collaborative relationships and/or deepen existing relationships between UW researchers and MMSD leaders; respond to the needs of this particular moment in time; and experiment with a new recruitment and selection process that implements a broker role for MEP. For researchers, these changes mean a wider range of potential topics and funding, more options for the type and time commitment of the work, and a new process for creating, submitting and deciding on proposals.
MEP will offer one award for up to $50K and up to five awards for $10K in direct costs. Learn more about the awards and how to submit a proposal, here.