RPPL: Who We Are

Dive deeper into RPPL’s vision, mission, values, and equity statement.

Our Vision

We envision a world where all students and educators are valued, supported, engaged, and thriving in equitable, rigorous, and joyful learning environments that prepare them to be successful lifelong learners.

Our Mission

RPPL is a collective of PL practitioners, researchers, educators, and funders committed to advancing educational equity for every student, including students who are Black, Latine, Indigenous, AAPI, multilingual learners, students with disabilities, and students experiencing poverty. Together, we study teacher and educator learning to identify, share, and enact PL that improves teachers’ instructional practices and students’ classroom experiences, well-being, and academic growth.

Our Values

Advance Educational Equity:

We conduct research that identifies effective PL design features proven to increase instructional practices that meet each student’s unique needs and improve academic, social, and economic outcomes for all students, including students who are Black, Latine, Indigenous, AAPI, multilingual learners, students with disabilities, and students experiencing poverty.

Build a Collaborative Community:

We are a diverse and inclusive network of professional learning practitioners, researchers, educators, and funders creating a community where we collaborate with care as equals, honor each individual’s unique identity and perspective, and value all voices.

Learn with Humility:

We are committed to listening to varied perspectives, engaging in self-reflection, learning from many forms of experience and expertise, and leaning into honest conversations in order to conduct research that does not confirm our biases, but rather challenges our assumptions and pushes boundaries to grow the professional learning community.

We are dedicated to generating professional learning solutions that are rooted in evidence and data and presented in a way that is actionable and accessible for educators of all backgrounds.

Our Equity Statement

For students, educational equity means that each child receives the unique supports they need to develop their full academic and social-emotional potential.

For educators, equitable professional learning means that each educator and teacher receives the training and support necessary to develop their practices to effectively meet the individual learning and development needs for all students in their classroom.

We [RPPL] aim to support the PL field (organizations, institutions, and districts who deliver, develop, study, and advocate for efficacious teacher/educator PL) to build collective capacity to:

Honor and meaningfully share the unique gifts, lived experiences, and expertise of our diverse collective.
Confront and disrupt structural inequities, power imbalances, and biases in our PL ecosystem by embracing equity-centered practices and principles in OUR daily work with the research field, school systems, educators, and students so that researchers, school systems, and educators are embracing equity-centered practices and principles in THEIR daily work with each other and students.
Advance current research and infrastructure that supports the synthesis and generation of knowledge, toward identifying and disseminating teacher PL that enacts evidence-based, equitable instructional practices that result in supportive, rigorous learning environments for students and educators.
Cultivate and activate educators to disrupt and close gaps in student academic outcomes in order to ensure equally high academic and socio-emotional development of students that lead to academic, social, and economic advancement, including for students who are Black, Latine, Indigenous, AAPI, multilingual learners, students with disabilities, and students experiencing poverty.