Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships | CS@AIR

Staff across AIR are experienced in facilitating and evaluating Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships (RPPs). RPPs are emerging approaches in which researchers and practitioners (such as teachers, counselors, or school administrators) work as equal partners to address complex and persistent problems of practice in the field; RPPs in particular have become very popular because of the National Science Foundation’s CSforAll: Research and RPPs program.

At CS@AIR, we use RPPs to partner with districts and states to advance their efforts in CS education. Our partnerships may center on a particular grade band or span across PK-12 and vary in focus from teacher professional development to classroom implementation to systems level change and policy explorations. While AIR leads or serves as the research partner for several CS-related RPPs, we can also serve as evaluators of RPPs.