Partnerships between educational researchers and school-based administrators and educators is imperative to successfully identifying evidence-based practices to improve pedagogy, curriculum, and student outcomes. In this paper, we recognize how being approached by educational researchers can be overwhelming for administrators and educators. We offer a perspective that may help school-based personnel understand the motivation behind research requests and how administrators can frame their response to these requests using a critical lens to ensure these partnerships are beneficial to their school community.
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