Research Minutes Podcasts Win 2020 AVA Digital Awards, Kicking Off CPRE's 35th Anniversary Year

The Research Minutes podcast team (L-R) Jonathan Crescenzo_ Joanthan Supovitz_ and Keith Heumiller
 
The Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), headquartered at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE), has received two Gold 2020 AVA Design Awards in the category of Audio Production/Radio for episodes of its education research and policy podcast  Research Minutes . The award comes one year after podcast managing editor Keith Heumiller, along with the communications team at CPRE, reinvigorated the format of the podcast in anticipation of CPRE's 35th anniversary in 2020.
 
"We've gained tremendous momentum over the last year, by bringing important education research to policymakers and practitioners through accessible podcasts."
Jonathan Supovitz, Penn GSE professor and Director of CPRE.
 
The first award winner,  Free Pre-K: How Cities are Growing and Funding High Quality Programs , explores two growing, subsidized early childhood education programs in Seattle and Philadelphia, funded respectively through pr operty taxes and a citywide "soda tax," which have reported recent success in improving both quality and access for local families. The podcast  features interviews with Shante Brown (Director of Operations, PHLpreK), Milagros Nores (Research Co-Director, NIEER), and Phil Sirinides (Senior Researcher, ECDataWorks). 
 
"We are extremely proud of these special episodes, which reflect our commitment to making important education research and policy information available, accessible, and actionable for those who need it most, including practitioners, policymakers, school leaders, and parents," 
Keith Heumiller, managing editor of Research Minutes

The second award winner, The Impacts of Immigration Enforcement on the Nation's Schools, looks at the ways American immigration enforcement efforts - both at the local and national levels - have had significant impacts on students, schools, and their surrounding communities, according to two recently published studies. The podcast features interviews with Thomas Dee (Stanford University), Patricia Gandara (UCLA), and Jongyeon Ee (Loyola Marymount).

The AVA Digital Awards , sponsored by the   Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals (AMCP), is an international competition that recognizes excellence by creative professionals responsible for planning, conceptualizing, directing, designing and producing digital communication. AVA recognizes outstanding achievement by creative professionals in the digital sphere.

CPRE is regularly recognized as a leader in the education field for our brand equity and for our reputation for high quality policy and evaluation research. 
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2020 SREE Conference
Friday, March 13 | 8 am ET (Studio B)

CPRE Jonathan Supovitz (University of Pennsylvania) will lead a panel discussion at this year's Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) Spring conference. The panel will discuss practices for translating education research for more general audiences via traditional and new media. Panelists include representatives from Chalkbeat, Education Week, Education Dive, and the CPRE Knowledge Hub. Panelists will share their approaches to reporting, social media engagement, and the production of multimedia including video and podcasts, and discuss what they have learned of audience preferences, consumption trends, and effective methods for reaching and engaging with varying communities.

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