The document provides information about a call for proposals from the Knowledge Network for Applied Education Research (KNAER) to establish a Knowledge Network focused on equity and inclusive education. It outlines the purpose, timeline, eligibility criteria, application process, and key dates. Successful applicants will receive multi-year funding to lead the network and facilitate collaboration between researchers, educators, and community partners to identify evidence-informed practices and reduce barriers to equitable outcomes for all students.
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1. Knowledge Network for Applied Education Research (KNAER)
Call for Proposals Information Session
Learning and Leading for Equity
Knowledge Network
May 2017
Is a tri-partite agreement among
2. Today’s Agenda
• Welcome and Introductions
• Purpose and Context
• About KNAER
• Call for Proposals
• Key Information for Applicants
• Learning and Leading for Equity Knowledge Network
• How to Apply
• Making Connections
4. Calls for Proposals
To Identify a Knowledge Network Host and Establish a
Knowledge Network in Equity and Inclusive Education
Download the Calls for Proposals at:
http://www.knaer-recrae.ca/call-for-proposals
5. Purpose and Context
• The ministry of education is
supporting the establishment
of four thematic knowledge
networks to support the
identification, sharing,
adaptation and
implementation of evidence-
informed educational practices
• Thematic knowledge networks
will focus on ministry priority
topics and will receive multi-
year funding (3 years)
Achieving Excellence: A
Renewed Vision for Education
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/about/renewed
Vision.pdf
6. Cross-sectoral partnerships involving universities, school boards and/or
community-based organizations with provincial reach and strength in
applying participatory collaborative approaches to knowledge mobilization.
Networks should include a variety of partner organizations representing
researchers, educators, community-based professionals, students and
families. Examples include:
Who can apply?
• Institutes, associations and/or foundations
• Universities and colleges
• Non-profit organizations
• Research organizations
• Subject-relevant provincial organizations
• Teacher associations
• School boards
• Professional organizations (involving e.g.,
directors, supervisory officers and principals)
7. Funding and Time Frame
Summer 2017 – Summer 2020
(approximately 3 years)
$325,000 a year with a minimum of $100,000 to
fund activities of Communities of Practice
8. Roles
Thematic knowledge network - brings together
multiple partners to form a provincial network
and local communities of practice.
Network Host(s) - organization(s) that will lead
the thematic network with organizational, fiscal
and management responsibilities.
Communities of practice (or “CoPs”) are groups
of individuals who collaborate on shared
interests to co-create and support evidence use
to inform educational practice connected to the
network goals.
11. KNAER Phase I (2010-14)
Projects: 44 research-practice
projects
Timeframe: 1-2 years
Funding: 25-100K per project
Partnership: required for each
project (150)
Focus areas: 4 broad priority
areas
12. Phase I Key Learnings
• External evaluation
• Review of utility of KNAER
• Literature review
• Interviews with KMb experts
• Planning sessions with stakeholders
14. Knowledge Mobilization Plans
What are your: clear, specific, & measurable goals?
What steps will you take to…
…provide ongoing opportunities for researchers, practitioners, and other critical
partners (e.g. community groups, parents, students) to connect and engage with
each other and with evidence, share knowledge and skills, collaborate and co-
create knowledge?
…provide ongoing capacity
building for using and sharing
evidence?
…create and disseminate
actionable evidence informed
resources that make it easy for
practitioners and other partners to
integrate evidence-informed
practices into daily routines?
…engage leaders at every
level to model and champion
knowledge mobilization
practices?
…incentivize knowledge
mobilization and evidence
use?
…monitor and evaluate the
implementation of your KMb plan
and use for future planning?
15. Key Information for Applicants:
Knowledge Network Host
Promoting Equity and Inclusive Education
16. Shared and committed leadership by the ministry, boards and schools
will play a critical role in eliminating discrimination through the
identification and removal of bias and systemic barriers.
Equity and inclusive education policies and practices will support
positive learning environments so that all students can feel engaged in
and empowered by what they are learning; supported by the teachers
and staff from whom they are learning; and welcomed in the
environment in which they are learning.
Accountability and transparency will be demonstrated through clear
measures of improved student outcomes and communication to the
public about our progress towards achieving equity for all students.
Ministry Commitment to Equity and
Inclusive Education
18. Context
While many indicators of success for students have improved since
2003 through a series of initiatives and supports, this improvement has
not had equitable outcomes for all students and persistent achievement
gaps continue to exist.
Vision
Identify and eliminate systemic barriers and discriminatory institutional
and instructional practices that negatively impact the achievement and
well-being of students who are marginalized.
Support Every Child Reach Every Student
19. Guiding questions
Equity and Inclusive knowledge network:
What are some of the evidence-based, research-informed, promising practices
and ways of ensuring equitable outcomes for students and addressing systemic
barriers to achievement for racialized and marginalized students?
How can the unique perspectives of community and sector-specific knowledge
and expertise be co-developed and leveraged across the province?
How can leaders across the education sector best be supported to work in
collaboration to expand effective practices and improve outcomes for racialized
and marginalized students in schools and school boards?
20. Priority outcomes: Learning and Leading for Equity
Knowledge Network
Examples of priority outcomes that could be addressed
through an Equity Knowledge Network
• Identification and reduction of the systemic barriers and biases that
contribute to inequitable outcomes and low student achievement
• Identification and mobilization of effective evidence-based supports
to improve learning conditions for racialized and marginalized
students;
• Increased collaboration, partnership and networking between and
among the ministry, community–based organizations (e.g., parent, or
student led), thematic knowledge networks and associated
communities of practice; and
• Increased educator capacity to understand the lived experiences of
racialized and marginalized students and use this knowledge to create
environments that promote student leadership and voice;
21. Role of the Knowledge Network Host
• provide expert leadership on quality knowledge and evidence
related to the equity and diversity in education;
• facilitate a shared vision, implementation plan, outreach efforts
and participation in the network
• lead the establishment and operation of a network and
communities of practice
• coordinate, collaborate and build capacity within, and across,
communities of practice
• coordinate self-assessment, monitoring and impact evaluation
• collaborate with the ministry, Planning and Implementation
Committee (PIC), and KNAER Secretariat
22. How to apply
Carefully review the Call for Proposals
Identify partners to establish the thematic knowledge network
Complete the proposal as per the application guidelines
Attach the application form
Submit completed applications to cro.office@ontario.ca by June 12,
2017
Download the Calls for Proposals at:
http://www.knaer-recrae.ca/call-for-proposals
23. Key Components of the Proposal
Criteria Weight
Overview of the Proposed Network 10%
Partnerships and Collaboration 30%
Organizational Capacity of Network Host 20%
Knowledge Mobilization Plan 20%
Evaluation Approach 10%
Budget 10%
24. Timelines
Key Dates
Calls for Proposals issued April 25th , 2017
Application Deadline June 12th , 2017
Review of Proposals June 13th – mid July
Final approvals and execution of
agreements
mid-July – mid-August
26. • share your name, email address, organization, and type
of equity work you do;
• intended for people and organizations who do work in
Ontario; and
• great place to connect with other individuals and
organizations who are interested in being part of the
Equity Knowledge Network and are looking for partners
who have similar goals for equity in education to join
them on an application.
Online Connection Section
http://www.knaer-recrae.ca/call-for-proposals
27. Thank you!
Questions or comments?
Contact us at: cro.office@ontario.ca
Want to learn more about the KNAER?
Visit: http://www.knaer-recrae.ca/
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