Building Multi-level Alignment in Local Computer Science for All Implementations for Sustainability

计算机科学（CS）教育在美国是一个迅速发展的教育变革的演习。随着社区和学区对将计算机科学纳入K-12教育环境的日益增长的愿望做出回应，为城市和州的所有学生提供优质计算机科学教育的地方举措正在兴起。成功的计划通常得到非营利组织或地区领导的支持，这些组织或领导对CS内容和教育都有了解。多管齐下的方法使CS for All运动在扩大K-12学习者获得计算机教育的目标方面取得了快速进展。然而，这种快速扩张也造成了巨大的困难，因为学校和教师的选择已经超过了学区所需的支持，没有CS教育专家，深思熟虑地选择CS教育合作伙伴，以促进教师专业发展和课程实施。选择CS教育合作伙伴需要了解如何协调愿景，实施和课程决策。因此，该项目将创建一个研究实践伙伴关系（RPP），以支持K-8学校制定协调的愿景和多年级实施计划，促进他们发展可持续的CS计划，扩大到更广泛的参与。通过研究和实施，该项目将有助于在K-8水平的CS教育实施选择的理解。这些实施选择是全国各地可持续CSforAll倡议的关键。该项目将有助于理解这一决策过程，支持，可以帮助学校和地区在这个过程中，并为学校和地区使用的措施，以评估其正在进行的实施，以社区的愿景。这些成果将有助于有关如何促进系统的教育变革的努力，因为它们涉及CS教育的基本见解。该研究是一项描述性研究，将侧重于记录和理解愿景、一致决策和实施举措的过程，这些过程可以促进更广泛地参与K-8计算教育。四个项目目标指导研究人员从业者伙伴关系（RPP）的工作：目标1：在CSforAll联盟、纽约大学和纽约农村和郊区的两个合作教育服务委员会之间建立RPP，以支持CSforAll的努力，着眼于长期伙伴关系和未来的迭代工作。目标2：设计和试点愿景，决策和实施例程，可以提供一个综合的工具包，以促进K-8学校和地区决策周围CS为所有实施。目标3：制定一套切实可行的措施，为地区和学校提供快速、形成性的衡量标准，以评估他们的CS for All倡议的一致性和实施情况。目标4：对伙伴关系开展的指导性决策和实施过程进行研究，这将导致学术见解，使更多细微差别和强大的CS for All实施决策可以扩展，可持续，并覆盖更广泛的学习者群体。

Computer science (CS) education in the United States is a rapidly evolving exercise in educational change. Local initiatives to bring quality CS education to all students in cities and states are emerging as communities and school districts respond to the growing desire to include computer science in K-12 education settings. Successful initiatives are often supported by non-profit organizations or district leadership that possess an understanding of both CS content and education. The multi-pronged approach has positioned the CS for All movement to make rapid progress in the goal of broadening access to computing education for K-12 learners. However, this rapid expansion has also created significant difficulties, as the options available to schools and teachers have outpaced the supports necessary for a school district, without an expert in CS education, to thoughtfully select CS education partners to facilitate teacher professional development and curricular implementation. Selection of CS education partners requires an understanding of how to coordinate vision, implementation, and curriculum decisions. Thus, this project will create a research-practice partnership (RPP) to support K-8 schools in developing coordinated visions and multi-grade implementation plans that facilitate their development of sustainable CS programs that scale to broader participation. Through research and implementation, the project will contribute to an understanding of CS education implementation choices at the K-8 level. These implementation choices are key to sustainable CSforAll initiatives around the country. The project will contribute to the understanding of that decision making process, supports that can help schools and districts in the process, and measures for schools and districts to use to assess the alignment of their ongoing implementation to community visions. These outcomes will contribute fundamental insights about how to foster systemic educational change efforts as they relate to CS education. The research, a descriptive study, will focus on documenting and understanding the process of visioning, aligned decision making, and implementation moves that can facilitate broader participation in K-8 computing education. Four project goals guide the Researcher Practitioner Partnership (RPP) work: Goal 1: Establish an RPP between the CSforAll Consortium, New York University, and two Boards of Cooperative Educational Services in rural and suburban New York to support CS for All efforts, with an eye toward long-term partnership and future, iterative work. Goal 2: Design and pilot visioning, decision-making, and implementation routines that can provide an integrated toolkit for facilitating K-8 school and district decision making around CS for All implementation. Goal 3: Develop a set of practical measures that can provide fast, formative metrics for districts and schools to evaluate the alignment and implementation of their CS for All initiatives over time. Goal 4: Conduct research on the guided decision-making and implementation processes that the partnership undertakes that will result in scholarly insights about enabling more nuanced and robust CS for All implementation decisions that can be scalable, sustainable, and reach broader populations of learners.