The STEM Education Research Group has several strategic research partnerships with urban schools, colleges,and universities within the Los Angeles, South Bay and San Gabriel Valley areas that connect STEM student learning interventions to teacher inservice professional development beginning in preschool and extending into K-12, community colleges and universities. These research efforts are critical to the advancement of STEM achievement in Pre-K- 12 and to increasing access to and persistence in college and into workforces of historically underrepresented groups.