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The Research Collaboration lab provides professional development and evaluation for diverse education projects. As part of the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning, we work with state departments, schools, teachers, community service agencies, students, and families in order to improve education for all students. Our staff is equally comfortable providing training on an array of education topics or conducting utilization-focused evaluation.

We are currently working on numerous projects spanning multiple states. Our role in these projects ranges from providing systematic professional development that promotes college and career competencies to evaluating the impact of educator professional development.

We provide coaching and training to interdisciplinary school teams to systematically embed college and career competency development into core content (addressing standards and competencies simultaneously) with consistent, meaningful, research-backed methods.

The School Implementation Scale is an online survey designed to capture the personal adoption and level of individual implementation of tiered academic and behavior supports.

Drs. Noonan and Gaumer Erickson have produced numerous books, articles, and products related to their work in evaluation and college and career competencies.

The goal of the Social-Emotional Learning for All project is to provide multi-year, ongoing quality professional development to build the capacity of Missouri districts and schools to embed social-emotional competencies into core content (i.e., addressing standards and intra- and interpersonal competencies simultaneously), ultimately building a sustainable culture.

We provide customized, utilization-focused evaluation for K-12 improvement initiatives that span a variety of topics.