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Open ImplementationIn development

Projects & partnerships

Build what research needs to reach more classrooms.

Open Implementation brings researchers, districts and funders together around a practical goal: help educators use strong interventions, support them as they adapt, and learn what makes implementation work across settings.

Last reviewed 4 Sept 2026

In practice

Learning from implementation

Each collaboration develops tools, knowledge and implementation experience that can strengthen the shared foundation.

01Live implementation

TRANSLATE

Supporting language and literacy in practice

Teacher learning, reflections, POD coaching and resources, and research visibility in a working deployment. Experience from TRANSLATE informs the reusable infrastructure.

IES award record ↗
Practical contributions
  • Teacher response workflows
  • POD leader review
  • POD-specific link and file resources
  • Discussion workflows
  • Research visibility across learning and coaching activity
Dates

31 Aug 2026 — leader workspace release

Generic-core transfer in progress; not everything is upstream yet

Attribution
TRANSLATE research is supported by IES award R305A240185 to Vanderbilt University.

What we can build together

Developing the next capabilities

New collaborations can connect a research agenda or implementation need to practical platform capabilities.

02In preparation

Spencer Vision Grant

Shaping a shared research agenda

Bring researchers and practitioners together to define shared measures, governance, and an ambitious cross-context research program.

Spencer Vision Grants ↗
Capabilities to develop
  • Coalition building and stakeholder discovery
  • Common constructs for fit, capability, enactment, adaptation, sustainment
  • Governance and data-stewardship design
  • Cross-context research agenda
Dates

Full proposal due 16 Sept 2026, 12:00 Central

03Under assessment

Tools Competition 2027

Opening new directions for educational technology

Assess opportunities to develop and evaluate a focused tool that advances learning, with scope defined after competition tracks are confirmed.

Launch event ↗
Opportunity in view
  • A focused tool with a clear learning purpose and evaluation plan
Dates

Launch 10 Sept 2026

Application deadline to be confirmed

Licensing & governance

Shared improvements, protected context

Reusable platform improvements are intended to return to the shared codebase through review and agreed contribution terms. Program content, confidential configuration and participant data remain separately governed.

Shared

Reusable platform improvements

Interfaces, data models, construct definitions and interoperability specifications. Intended to return to the shared codebase through review and agreed contribution terms.

Licensed

Program content

Curricula, assessments and materials owned by their developers. Referenced by the platform, licensed on the developer's terms.

Private

Confidential configuration

How a district, school or program configures pathways, cohorts and supports. Visible to that partner, not the public.

Restricted

Participant data

Practitioner and student-linked records, held under consent and governance agreements. Access is granted, logged and revocable.

The license and reusable release are still in preparation. Reusable improvements are intended to return to the shared codebase through review and agreed contribution terms.

Next

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Districts, funders and researchers can reach out about a specific aspect, a new function, or a grant initiative developed together.

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