The Kern Teacher Residency Consortium is a partnership between the California State University, Bakersfield and four Teacher Residency Programs: Kern Urban Teacher Residency (Bakersfield City School District), Kern Teacher Residency - Greenfield (Greenfield Union School District), Kern High Teacher Residency (Kern High School District), and Rural Education Teacher Residency (Tulare County). The Citizen Scientist Project is designed to predominantly serve the Residents, Mentor Teachers, and students who compose these Residencies and districts. However, whenever possible, we invite others to engage in collaborative learning.

We work with TeachingWorks from the University of Michigan to help make the complex work of teaching visible for our pre-service and in-service teachers. To do this, we engage teacher education pedagogies and decompositions of higher leverage practices in methods courses, public teaching days, and lab classes.

We work with the UC Davis Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education (C-STEM) to build the capacity of our pre-service and in-service teachers to create, facilitate, and assess interdisciplinary C-STEM curriculum and pedagogy. We also partner to create innovative spaces for teacher education through Girls in Robotics Leadership (GIRL) Camps for historically marginalized middle and high school girls in our community.

We collaborate with WestEd to assess the multifaceted impacts of our work at the classroom, school, and community level.