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Read CodeSnaps: Reducing Barriers to K-12 CS Education
Demand for K-12 computer science education is rising rapidly and many schools are struggling to meet this demand. Administrators point...
Read Collaborative Computing in Elementary Grades
How do we teach computational thinking and programming to elementary students? Especially if we have a small budget! In this...
Read Bootstrap Data Science: Using Data to Answer Questions that Matter
All students are data scientists; they just don’t know it yet! “Who is the best quarterback of all time?” “Do...
Read Community Feedback on CSTA / ISTE Educator Standards
CSTA and ISTE have launched an initiative to revise CS standards. The goals for these Standards for CS Educators are...
Read Congressional App Challenge
The Congressional App Challenge’s mission is to inspire, include, and innovate efforts around STEM, coding, and computer science education. Each...
Read Creating Innovators: Cultivating Curiosity, Creativity, and Tenacity
Imagine: a classroom of 30 students, each working on their own, individual (or sometimes paired) project for a real world...
Read Creativity in the K–12 Computing Classroom
Learning to program can be exciting, engaging, and empowering. This Birds of a Feather session is for educators who want...
Read Crowdsourcing Multiple Choice Questions for Computing
When assessing students’ learning in computing, one approach is to ask questions and use students’ answers to judge what they’ve...
Read Opening & Welcome with The Heart of Teaching with Charity Freeman
Charity Freeman will challenge CS K12 educators to reconnect with the heart of teaching as means to achieve equity in...
Read Best Practices for Online Engagement in Elementary CS
Practical tips & strategies you can use TOMORROW to help you be successful in your online engagement for Elementary CS!...
Read Best Practices for Online Engagement in Middle School CS
Immediately implementable strategies to build engagement virtually, with a focus on differentiation, creativity, and collaboration. Presenter: Jen Manly
Read Curriculum Observations From Teaching With Grasshopper
Hear takeaways from teaching over 100K students introductory CS concepts through the Grasshopper mobile app. Over the last year, we’ve...
Read Cyber Security High School Curriculum
Cyber security is one of the fastest growing fields within computer science. Jobs are in-demand and range from working with...
Read Engaging 9th grade Computing Students with Sensory-rich Play
The concept of an “unplugged” approach to teaching computing originated in a set of activities known as “Computer Science Unplugged”....
Read Engaging PreK-12 Young Minds With Interdisciplinary Physical Computing
Come join us for a hands on Poster session to learn and engage in Interdisciplinary Physical Computing – an engaging...
Read Best Practices for Online Engagement in High School CS
Turns Out Remote Instruction Works. How we ran our highest-ever rated classes remotely through Zoom. Presenters: Taylor Want and Jeff...
Read Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in an Online Setting
Cultural sustaining pedagogy responds and remains relevant to students and affirms their linguistic/cultural traditions supporting the ongoing reaffirmation of culture....
Read Integrating Equity into SEL in Elementary CS Instruction
Make remote learning engaging by focusing on equity, SEL and computer science! Presenter: Jorge Valenzuela
Read Integrating Equity into SEL in Middle School CS Instruction
Participants will learn about grounding SEL in a focus on equity to further promote the conditions that enable all children...
Read Integrating Equity into SEL in High School CS Instruction
Ground SEL in equity to ensure ensure every child is centered at the core of your SEL implementation of CASEL’s...
Read New to CSTA
New member orientation informative presentation over basic membership access and resources available at your fingertips. Presenter: Cate Sauer
Read Thriving as a Virtual Teacher
Learn actionable ways to get your most important work done… without sacrificing your sanity. Presenter: Jen Manly
Read Engage Students by Programming Socially Responsible Serious Games
One way to broaden participation in computer science is to make the subject area more relevant to students’ interests and...
Read Engaging PreK-12 young minds with Interdisciplinary Physical Computing
Come join us for a hands on Poster session to learn and engage in Interdisciplinary Physical Computing – an engaging...