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.
MENTORS in CS
COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION, LLC.
Bryan Twarek
This project will develop Matching Experienced and Novice Teachers for Ongoing Rigorous Support in Computer Science (MENTORS in CS), a Research Practitioner Partnership to develop and iteratively improve a high school CS teacher mentorship program to provide ongoing, rigorous, and job-embedded support to teachers who are new to CS.
CS4SA-HS
University of Texas at San Antonio
Timothy Yuen
This project will design and implement a rigorous teacher professional development program to develop a qualified high school CS teacher workforce in Texas by targeting non-CS high school teachers and preparing them to become highly qualified CS teachers of linguistically and culturally diverse learner populations.
CONECTAR
University of California, Irvine
Mark Warschauer
Building on a successful Research-Practice Partnership that developed an innovative curriculum to meet the needs of Hispanics and English language learners, this project will iteratively research and develop an approach for teaching computational thinking to a large number of students who are Hispanic and English learners.
CSAwesome
College of Saint Scholastica; College of Our Lady of the Elms
Jennifer Rosato
This RPP will investigate how to best prepare and support teachers who are new to CS as they transition from teaching the AP CSP course to the AP CSA Java course. The RPP team will use a DBIR RPP model utilizing an iterative approach to refine the CSAwesome curriculum and PD to meet the needs of teachers transitioning from AP CSP to CSA.
ECS Fellows 2.0
Teach For America; University of Oregon Eugene
Ruthie Ousley
Teach for America (TFA), in collaboration with the University of Oregon, proposes to build on an existing collaboration that prepared in-service teachers from TFA's network to both advocate for broadened access to CS learning, and to teach an inquiry-based introductory CS course at high-need secondary schools.
Culturally Relevant Robotics
University of Tennessee Knoxville
Frances Harper
The purpose of this RPP is to generate an actionable theory of change for promoting CT and a sense of belonging in computer science through a culturally relevant robotics program developed in partnership with university teacher educators and researchers, administrators, teachers, coaches, and Black and Latinx children and their families.
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.