Experience

Ed Research Works focuses its efforts on many types of projects:
  • Research Communication: Synthesizing and translating specific or broad evidence into meaningful takeaways and actionable insights
  • Research Capacity-Building: Developing resources to increase education stakeholders' ability to access and consume research
  • Research Design: Developing and guiding research studies, research agendas, or research strategy to ensure evidence is understood and translated into action
  • Research Mobilization: Convening and facilitating partnerships, networks, and collaboratives focused on nurturing a scientific mindset and approach at all levels within the education sector

Exemplars

Current and past projects concretely illustrate Ed Research Works' objectives and impact.
For example, research communication series IgnitED Research, aims to build stronger connections between learning science and instructional practice.
The Learning Accelerator's Measurement Fellowship mobilized a diverse group of individuals working at the nexus of research and practice to generate field-friendly, evidence-based resources to improve effective implementation of blended learning instructional strategies.
Advisory roles, such as with SXSW EDU, and the US ED Office of Educational Technology's Rapid Cycle Evaluation Coach, build capacity among educators for using research in their daily work.

Expertise

Ed Research Works was founded and is led by Sarojani S. Mohammed, Ph.D. who has 15 years' experience leading research studies and external evaluations of education initiatives in public, private, and nonprofit settings.
Dr. Mohammed has spent her career working to ensure research equitably improves K-12 learning experiences, and is a founding board member of Capacity Catalyst, an Austin, TX-based nonprofit on a mission to empower communities through more accessible and adaptable research and evaluation.
Learn more about Saro and her work >>

Engagement

Ed Research Works is guided in all projects by the following principles:
  • Attention: we limit the number of concurrent projects to ensure each one gets the care and attention it is worth.
  • Belief: we operate from the premise that all learners can achieve their potential, and that the answers to what works best for whom and under what conditions lie in evidence.
  • Communication: we communicate transparently, clearly, and frequently throughout a project - from proposals to final deliverables, and everything in between.
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: we approach each project with an anti-racist lens to prioritize learners, change systems, and redistribute privilege, one project at a time.
  • Fun: we love data, evidence, and research and we especially love making data/evidence/research work for you!

Endorsements


​If you would like to hear firsthand what working with us is like, just ask and we'll provide names & contact info. Here's what we've been told via unsolicited, written feedback:

Fighting the injustice of knowledge hoarding

by making deep, meaningful connections between research and practice
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to foster the best learning experiences for each learner.​

All the Tools You Need for Learners to Succeed

How to reach us:
Are you ready to bring research and evidence to bear on improving learning? Want to learn more? Have feedback to share?

Email [email protected]
Where to find us:
Sep 9: How Can Data Be Racist? presented by Galvanize Webinar

Sep 17: Community-Engaged Research to Achieve Social Justice, Austin Ivy Plus Virtual Speaker Series by Cal Alumni Club of Austin