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Abstract | ||
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Professional development (PD) has long been recognized as one of the key ingredients in K-12 CS Education, particularly when addressing the problem of underserved communities. Over the last decade, significant work has been done to create professional development and curricular offerings that are research based, with a proven track record. Bootstrap, Exploring Computer Science and AP CS Principles represent these types of programs. Each of these programs has developed high-quality PD for educators and have been recognized by the White House as exemplar courses. However, economies of scale make it difficult to expand to the vast number of small school districts around the country, including some of the most isolated and underserved areas such as rural communities and Native American reservations. This panel will discuss an alternative model - \"CSPdWeek\" -- a national event aimed at providing best-in-class PD to teachers across the country. The inaugural CSPdWeek took place in July, 2016 at Colorado School of Mines, and provided a week-long residential experience for teachers attending one of three teacher-focused professional development programs. Over 240 classroom teachers attended CSPdWeek, making this professional development the single largest cross-curricular effort in preparing U.S. teachers to teach computing as part of the \"CS for All\" movement. This panel will focus on why this year's CSPdWeek was such a success and what was behind social media testimonies from teachers who talked about being part of an educational movement. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2017 | 10.1145/3017680.3017681 | SIGCSE |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
CS for All, K-12 Education, Professional development | Social media,Computer science,Professional development,Multimedia,Economies of scale,Scalability | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 2 |
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5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| tracy camp | 1 | 30 | 10.00 |
| Emmanuel Schanzer | 2 | 32 | 5.37 |
| Joanna Goode | 3 | 145 | 23.53 |
| Owen L. Astrachan | 4 | 26 | 3.69 |
| Ed Campos | 5 | 0 | 0.34 |