ABSTRACT
Drawing on a six-year rural education research-practice partnership (RPP) that has successfully collaborated to form culturally responsive-sustaining computing pathways, we share our main learnings about engaging in RPPs across culture and distance. In particular, we found pivots are necessary when working across our differences. We had to make several hard pivots mentally and in program logistics, individually and as a group, even when we thought of ourselves as being open minded, flexible, and conscientious. We share some of our salient pivots, both from the research and practice sides, not so RPPs can predict and avoid such turns but in hopes that project teams will feel encouraged to make them as needed.
