ABSTRACT
This chapter describes challenges to such multi-channel communication and the ways in which the technological tools adopted have and haven't served the authors' partnership needs for communication. The tools were selected by an initial research team months before work with teachers, district administrators, and graduate students began. The chapter recognizes the familiar feeling of disenchantment that comes when hopes for the use of tools meet the real world. It begins by questioning how communication practices change internally and externally when focusing on the needs of a context-specific research– practice partnership. The chapter discusses how power structures and group dynamics shape and affect the online practices authors ended up adopting alongside tools like Slack, Google Drive, and WordPress. It questions that what kind of social practices are found in the digital tools utilized by partnership today and the constraints they create.
