The RPPforCS project connects the teams through virtual meetings (webinars), in-person meetings, and meetings of the R-EWG. Here you will find information about the participating grant teams, project activities, and resources from the project.
Searchable RPP Database and Maps
This database allows you to search through our existing community of projects on a range of characteristics. You can use this resource to find people who are geographically close to you, working on a similar problem of practice, working with a similar student or teacher population, and more!
The first map of the embedded “RPPforCS Projects Map”, "Projects by Research Team" shows the dispersion of project PIs across the country. The second map, "Projects by Implementation Location" demonstrates the distribution of projects by the proposed state of implementation. The “RPPforCS District Maps” insert provides a map of US school districts within which one or more NSF: CSforAll RPPs are operating, as well as tables of demographic data for these districts. All of these maps have a set of demographic data associated with projects and/or locations that can be filtered upon.
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RPP Project Database
The RPPforCS searchable database allows you to search through our existing community of projects on a range of characteristics. You can use this resource to find people who are geographically close to you, working on a similar problem of practice, working with a similar student or teacher population, and more! The database will automatically update itself with your chosen filters shortly after selecting them.
If you are looking for potential BPC partners, then you may find the following filters the most useful:
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The “District Population” filters allow you to search for projects by the populations of the districts that they are known to be operating in. Note that these are not necessarily the target population, but may provide insight into the environment that a project is operating in.
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The “Urban/Rural Class” filter allows you to search for projects by the US Census designation of projects’ district partners.
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The “Keywords” filter allows you to search for projects by key areas of focus, such as pathways programs or PD delivery.
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The “State of Implementation” filter allows you to search for projects by state. Only states with at least one project are listed.
CS Visions RPP
The New York City Foundation for Computer Science Education
Leigh DeLyser
CS Visions will create an RPP to support K-8 schools in developing coordinated visions and multi-grade implementation plans that facilitate their development of sustainable, scalable CS programs. Through research and implementation, the project will contribute to an understanding of CS education implementation choices at the K-8 level.
Universal Design for CS
University of Florida
Maya Israel
This RPP will develop and make available a range of professional development resources that will allow teachers to challenge their beliefs about students with disabilities and develop skills and knowledge about effective instructional approaches for accessible and engaging instruction for all their learners, including those with disabilities.
BRIGHT-CS
University of North Carolina
Ryoko Yamaguchi
BRIGHT-CS is a two-year project that will engage teachers, school leaders, guidance counselors, and researchers to identify barriers and future work in the areas of structural, instructional, and curricular improvements in middle schools to promote more black girls to gain interest and experience in computer science.
Computer Science Connections
WestEd
Yvonne Kao
Computer Science Connections is a researcher-practitioner partnership (RPP) between WestEd and the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). The partnership will use a design research approach to modify the data science content within OUSD’s middle school computer science curriculum to include more socially relevant problems and to incorporate classroom discourse strategies.
Broadening Access to CT-STEM
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Amanda Dickes
In this project, researchers will partner with teachers to co-design a math and science curriculum that integrates computing and supports hybrid language practices and draws on students’ lived experience. The project includes support for a Professional Learning Community for grade 6 teachers so they can collaborate and reflect on the developing pedagogy.
ICS4All
East Carolina University
Matthew Militello
The project builds on the trust and relationships engendered by an existing RPP to enable middle school students to benefit from the integration of specific computer science and computational skills into specific classes (art and music). The project will advance knowledge of how to introduce an educational innovation in rural school districts.
RPPforCS Project Maps
The first tab, "Projects by Research Team" shows the dispersion of NSF: CSforAll RPPs across the country. By toggling the filters on the right-hand side of the map you can filter the view by which Grade Band a project is targeting as well as the type of curriculum that the projects will be using. Note that points are staggered to allow overlapping projects to be visible.
The second tab, "Impact Area" demonstrates the distribution of NSF: CSforAll RPPs by the proposed state of implementation. As with the first map you can filter down by Grade Band and Curriculum Used. Mousing over or clicking on a state will display all grade bands being targeted by RPPs in that state, all curricula being used by RPPs in that state, and a list of all projects operating in that state.
RPPforCS District Maps
This set of maps details the districts that NSF: CSforAll RPPs are known to be partnered with and the overall demographics of students in those districts. These demographics do not necessarily represent the specific student subgroups (if any) being targeted by NSF: CSforAll RPPs, however. It should also be noted that projects will frequently only work directly with a subset of schools within a district, and a project's presence in a district on this map does not imply that they are working with every school in a given district.
All of these tabs can be filtered by searching for a project's name, by state, or by districts' urban/rural status as defined by the US Census.
The first tab "RPPforCS Continental District Map" displays all known public school districts partnered with one or more NSF: CSforAll RPPs.
The second and third tabs "District Race/Ethnicity Demographics vs. State Demographics" and "District Race/Ethnicity Demographics vs. National Demographics" provide details for each RPP-partnered school district's student demographics compared to their state or national student demographics, respectively. They also provide information on which projects are operating in each district. The "Examine by" drop-down menu in the top right of each tab can be used to select what demographic group to display data for.
The last tab "Other Demographic Information" shows district-level student data for the percentage of students eligible for free/reduced lunch as well as the percentage of those who are English as a second language/limited English proficiency students. Any blank rows indicate that there is currently no data for a given district.