SERP Institute

Bridging Research, Practice, and Design in Education

The Strategic Education Research Partnership generates innovative, scalable solutions to our schools’ most pressing problems through sustained collaborations among education researchers, practitioners, and designers. We work to improve the learning and engagement of all students and to give teachers and students greater agency.

Featured Items

SERP Annual Report, 2025

“SERP’s progress reflects the commitment of educators, researchers, district partners, funders, and staff who contribute their expertise and trust to long-term collaborations.“


Suzanne Donovan

SERP Founding Executive Director

Unlocking Success for Struggling Adolescent Readers

This EdWeek Webinar brought together educators from across the country to share how they’re supporting students who are reading below grade level and building stronger engagement and comprehension in middle and high school classrooms.

K-2 Literacy Professional Resources

New research-based online courses and companion resources designed to support highly effective literacy instruction are now available.

A SERP Success Story

This lively nine-minute video documents how SERP's free WordGen Weekly program started this New York City middle school on a path from struggling and under-enrolled to laser-focused on academic language, evidence-based argumentation, and critical analysis.

More SERP Resources

Recent Blog Posts

By Avery Jones July 14, 2026
School Spending Equity, Special Education Monitoring, Cognitive Surrender
By Kala Jones, Ph.D. July 6, 2026
I started the SERP Stories Podcast with a research question. What does it look like when research and practice truly work together? Clean. Answerable. The kind of question you can build a season around.
By Karen Tran June 26, 2026
Invest in Your Practice with Live Virtual STARI Professional Learning This Summer

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SERP tools are now available as free educator resources, and the collection is growing quickly!


1,200+

teachers and administrators have helped with SERP research and design work.

30+ 

school districts have engaged in collaborative problem-solving in SERP Partnerships.

50+ 

school districts have participated in SERP product evaluations.

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major research institutions represented among researchers who have participated in SERP partnerships.

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RCT studies have been completed by SERP-recruited teams, leading to dozens of publications and new research instruments.

52,000+

educators are registered users of SERP products. Visitors to product websites now exceed one million.

$60 million+

raised in grants.

Video Showing Locations of Product Downloads

Watch how the use of SERP materials has  expanded throughout the nation over the last five years.

Our Funders

Abell Foundation
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Goldman Sachs Foundation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Haan Foundation for Children
Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Dept of Education
Intel Foundation
Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation
John S. and Catherine L. Reed Foundation
Koshland Foundation
Leon Lowenstein Foundation
National Academy of Sciences
National Science Foundation
Office of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Dept of Education
Robert Noyce Foundation
S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation
Simons Foundation
Spencer Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation