The Blueprint, created through the collaborative and inclusive approach adopted by the BIRD-E project, is a meta-analytic data infrastructure that aims to support all types of organizations to participate in robust research and development in the education sector. The intended beneficiaries of the project include federal and local research agencies, research-practice intermediaries, established data teams of schools districts and education technology organizations.

Through the Blueprint and its toolkit, the stakeholders will be able to design a well formulated research question to create a robust research design and standardize articulation of data needed to complete the research. Long-term impact of this project includes cost reductions to run research studies, increased school engagement with research, enhanced shareability of studies results, and improving user engagement in the R&D process. Additionally, we hope to create an extension Blueprint in addition to our core Blueprint with the idea that as research evolves over time, so will the Blueprint.