Online PD Courses

1. Articulate components of your identity and how different social settings influence how you represent yourself to others.
2. Analyze intersectional data in CS education.
3. Devise a plan to implement intersectionality practices that nurture all students' learning experiences.

4. Appraise your power/privilege using an interactive Wheel of Power.

1. Reflect on the history of the race construct.
2. Compose a list of events for the next era of America’s history regarding race.
3. Examine the cycle of oppression through the lens of teachers.
4. Review strategies that CS educators use to facilitate critical conversations regarding bias within CS.

5. Explore with classroom resources/lessons focused on how technology reinforces oppression.

1. Evaluate your comfort level in having conversations about race. 
2. Listen to diverse perspectives on race.
3. Prepare for classroom conversations involving race.
4. Examine intent versus impact and zero-indifference policy.
5. Design classroom discussion norms that are inclusive and promote safe conversations.

6. Predict challenges and devise plans to overcome potential struggles in covering critical topics with students.

1. Assess your own implicit biases.
2. Identify non-inclusive CS terminology
3. Integrate inclusive language in your classroom.
4. Devise an action plan to counteract self-identified biases and develop an inclusive classroom culture.

Prepare to teach lessons on threat modeling to introduce “the security mindset” and an overarching framework for cybersecurity.

Engage students with a red team/blue team secret keeping brainstorming activity.

Explore threat modeling as applied to a physical domain, like a house.  Make connections to the cybersecurity domain.

Learn and explain key cybersecurity vocabulary and ideas in more depth.

Guide students in elaborating their knowledge through a threat modeling exercise using "security cards".

Experience an evaluation activity to interpret cybersecurity issues in the news. 

Preview additional lessons on key security concepts like authentication and social engineering.