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.
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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.
Building Capacity to Support Elementary CS Pathways Tailored to Rural Needs in Idaho
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences
Kathryn Rich
This partnership between American Institutes for Research, Idaho STEM Action Center, and BootUp Professional Development will support rural districts in Idaho in the design of an inclusive, K-5 computer science course pathway.
Broadening Participation in Computer Science Through Programming and the Arts
Northwestern University
Michael Horn
This proposal builds on an existing RPP between Northwestern University and Evanston/ Skokie School District 65 in Illinois to develop a shared platform and professional development framework that supports computational learning across a network of schools, community centers, libraries, and homes.
Creating Adoptable Computing Education Integrated into Social Studies Classes
Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Mark Guzdial
This project is developing an online education research curriculum for data literacy and data visualization tools and providing on-going support to teachers. This project supports students computationally to build data visualizations in history classes.
Empowering K-5 Teachers in Southern Oregon Through Computational Thinking
Southern Oregon University
Eva Skuratowicz
This project, focused on integrating computational thinking (CT) into the K-5 instruction of general elementary and elementary bilingual teachers, will grow the early collaboration efforts initially started in 2015 into a formalized networked improvement community (NIC) in southern Oregon.
A Coordinated, Cross-Institutional Career and Tech. Ed. Cybersecurity Pathway
ETR Associates
Jill Denner
This project is a collaboration between Education, Training, Research, Pjaro Valley Unified School District, Digital NEST, and Cabrillo College; together they will build a cybersecurity-focused computer information systems pathway from high school to college in a majority-Latino district.
Developing Board Games and Learning Materials to Support 5th Grade Learning
Utah State University
Victor Lee
This project presents an alternative model to computer-assisted CS education that allows for schools and districts to implement CS/CT education for all students, particularly girls, by focusing on "unplugged" gameplay in school libraries using boardgames as a foundation for CS/CT lessons with computers in classrooms.
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.
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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.
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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.
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The first tab "RPPforCS Continental District Map" displays all known public school districts partnered with one or more NSF: CSforAll RPPs.
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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.
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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.