Creating a School-wide CS/CT-focused STEM Ecosystem to Address Access Barriers

STEM ecosystem is an emerging model for identifying the barriers and support structures that students have in their learning trajectories in STEM. In this paper our university-based research team presents a CS/CT-focused STEM ecosystem strategy designed to address underrepresentation in computing fields. We describe our current and future work within our school-level research-practice partnership (RPP) with a local middle school, used to guide the creation of this ecosystem.