June 2020
Dr. Cynthia Blitz, Ph. D, Vivian Allen, & David Amiel

Presented at the 2019 Pennsylvania Computer Science for All Summit.

How may a collaboration between researchers and K12 education practitioners improve engagement with computer science education for all learners? How do you make this partnership work? The Computer Science Teaching and Learning Collaboratory (CS-TLC) is a researcher-practitioner partnership (RPP) among school districts, schools, administrators, and teachers along with Rutgers University’s Center for Effective School Practices (RU-CESP) and Department of Computer Science (RU-CS). CS-TLC members collaborate to design, adapt, and implement professional learning opportunities; curate and organize resources and tools, and address district-wide processes, procedures, and organizational routines in order to deliver equity-driven, culturally-sensitive, rigorous, and engaging CS education to all students. This session presented the experiences, successes, and lessons learned from the CS-TLC and explain the impact of the project.