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.
ExCITE
Hofstra University
Anthony Gordon
This project proposes to prepare high school technology and engineering (T&E) teachers to teach CS/CT in their classrooms by leveraging the Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC) course, enhanced with real-world problem-solving challenges to increase student engagement and better suit the pedagogy employed by targeted teachers.
Next Door to Silicon Valley
ETR Associates
Jill Denner
There is great disparity for students from low socioeconomic households, Latino/a students, and female students to have quality opportunities to learn CS or practice CT. This project seeks to advance knowledge of how to build research-practice partnerships that can broaden participation in computing in K-8.
CAFECS
The Learning Partnership ; University of Chicago
Steven McGee
DePaul University, in collaboration with The Learning Partnership, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, proposes an RPP with the aim of ensuring that all CPS students have access to inclusive, high-quality, introductory computer science education in high school.
SchoolWide Labs
University of Colorado at Boulder; Utah State University
Tamara Sumner
SchoolWide Labs is a collaborative effort between the University of Colorado at Boulder and Utah State University aimed at investigating the impact of the SparkFun platform combined with a targeted teacher professional development on teachers' ability to support CT integration and promote student interest and learning.
ECS4PR
University of Puerto-Rico Piedras
Edusmildo Orozco
Building on the previous NSF community of practitioners CSMER project, the College of Education and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras proposes a project to establish an RPP that will foster the integration of CS and Engineering into the public schools of Puerto Rico.
AIR@NE
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Leen-Kiat Soh
This project extends a successful RPP between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Lincoln Public Schools to other school districts in Nebraska. The primary goal is to study how a CS curriculum for K-8 students is adopted by school districts with different strengths and challenges to broaden participation in computing.
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.