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Registration is still open for the sixth annual Pennsylvania Computer Science For All (CSforAllPA) Summit, held June 14-15, 2023 at PaTTAN Harrisburg and online. Who's invited? EVERYONE involved in CS education, including educators, administrators, families and caregivers, partners from intermediate units, higher education, STEM institutions, out-of-school learning organizations, and others.
On April 27th, the Expanding Computing Education Pathways ( ECEP) Alliance announced the acceptance of seven new member states, including Pennsylvania. The mission of ECEP is to broaden participation in computing by identifying and addressing the policies, pathways, and practices in state education systems that are barriers to diverse student engagement and success.
We are accepting applicationsfor an educational consultant to join the PaTTAN CSinPA team. The full-time educational consultant: PAsmart Computer Science position will provide training and technical assistance to school districts, intermediate units, and agencies in Pennsylvania in the area of Computer Science and STEM.
We're hiring! These part-time, short-term projects are 100% virtual and offer flexible scheduling. Make some extra money and build your resume by sharing your CS knowledge and passions! Applications for each project are accepted on a rolling basis.
CSinPA February 2023 by Sara Frey | This newsletter was created with Smore, an online tool for creating beautiful newsletters for educators, nonprofits, businesses and more
The Pennsylvania Department of Education, Bureau of Special Education is pleased to announce the sixth annual Pennsylvania Computer Science For All (CSforAllPA) Summit will be held June 14-15, 2023 at PaTTAN Harrisburg and online. The CSforAllPA Summit offers educators, leaders, and stakeholders the opportunity to share, discuss, and collaboratively develop tools, resources, and practices for CS learning experiences.
CSEdWeek 2022 - Resources and Events by Sara Frey
W e launched the CSinPA virtual community for you to seek out ideas from others and share resources. T here's no cost to participate, so we hope you'll join us. We also have two paid opportunities for people to engage in the community: Applications for both programs ar e accepted on a rolling basis.
Jigar Patel (Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11) is participating in the 2022-23 CSTA Equity Fellowship, a national program focused addressing inequities in K-12 CS education. Jigar is well known in CSinPA for leading projects out of IU11, presenting annually at the CSforALLPA Summit, serving as the vice president of the CSTA Susquehanna Valley chapter, and more.
If you participated in the CSinPA K-8 Pathway, please complete the K-8 Pathway Follow-Up questionnaire . Y our input will help us identify priority areas for new elementary CS professional learning resources and opportunities. You can respond to the questionnaire below or open the Google Form in your web browser.
Graduate Certificate in CS Education - Elizabethtown College Elizabethtown College is offering a limited number of scholarships for this program, endorsed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) in preparing teachers to pass the 7-12 CS Praxis exam required to earn the PDE 7-12 CS add-on certificate.
At the Summit, Bureau of Special Education assistant director, Dr. Amy Pastorak helped us recognize C SforAllPA Exemplary Educator award finalists Heather Hedderman and Elizabeth Woods and the winner, Jeffrey Wile. was nominated by his principal at Warwick High School for his efforts to increase the number of female students in his classes.
54 teams participated in the ninth annual Governor's STEM Competition, designing and building solutions to problems impacting the Commonwealth. We applaud all the students' efforts, and congratulate the winning teams. Division 1 teams had a majority of returning members and Division 2 teams had a majority of new members.
CELEBRATIONS AND SHOUT-OUTS K-12 Open Office Hours: May 24, 3:00 - 5:00 pm No registration needed, just join our Zoom room School/District Teams: SCRIPT (CS strategic planning) Dates vary; workshops hosted locally by IUs K-8 Pathway Dates vary; cohorts hosted locally by IUs 7-12 Praxis Prep Pathway Registration is now open for the new cohort (May, 2022- Dec, 2022)!
CELEBRATIONS AND SHOUT-OUTS CSinPA Meet-Up: April 20, 3:00 - 4:00 pm Registration open to everyone. Everyone welcome.
CELEBRATIONS AND SHOUT-OUTS K-12 Open Office Hours: March 29, 3:00 - 5:00 pm No registration needed. Click here to join via Zoom School/District Teams: SCRIPT (CS strategic planning) Dates vary; workshops hosted locally by IUs K-8 Pathway Dates vary; cohorts hosted locally by IUs 7-12 Praxis Prep Pathway The 100% virtual pathway is open to any PA 7-12 educators who are currently teaching or will soon be teaching a CS course and are planning to take the 7-12 CS Praxis required for certification.
Join us in congratulating schools awarded the 2021 Advanced Placement (AP) CS Female Diversity Award, given to schools with females representing 50%+ of all CS exam takers, or a percentage of CS exam takers meeting or exceeding the school's female population.
After the 2019-20 PAsmart Targeted grant ended, we solicited feedback from educators and administrators via surveys and focus groups. Efforts to evaluate the impacts of the PAsmart Targeted Grant programs are ongoing. Our K-8 professional learning program was revised and remains available through partnering Intermediate Units (IUs).
CELEBRATIONS AND SHOUT-OUTS Training and Consultation to Implement Computer Science The CSinPA team recently launched a program for TaC especially interested in growing their capacity as leaders in CS education.
We're pleased to announce the LEAs participating in cohort 1 of our professional learning program to implement CS with drones. In just a few days, teachers serving as their LEA's ambassadors will begin with a day of building, flying, and coding drones.
The CSinPA K-8 Pathway is open to K-8 educators interested in growing their CS capacity. Cohorts (100% virtual or hybrid) are hosted locally by our intermediate unit (IU) partners. Act 48 credit hours are available. Click here to learn more.
We typically begin each CSinPA newsletter by recognizing individuals for their recent efforts in growing their capacity in CS or facilitating CS learning for others. We're taking a different approach in this edition, as communities across the Commonwealth begin a new school year. This month, we're celebrating yinz | youse | y'all.
PDE is hosting focus group sessions to receive feedback about the PAsmart Targeted program. PAsmart Focus groups are open to educators and administrators in schools/districts that participated in the 2018-19 or the 2019-20 PAsmart Targeted Grant program.
CSinPA: July 2021 by Sara Frey | This newsletter was created with Smore, an online tool for creating beautiful newsletters for educators, nonprofits, businesses and more
Join us June 21 - 25 for the fourth annual CSforALL-PA Summit. The theme for 2021, CS Celebrations, honors how educators across the Commonwealth created, adapted, and expanded CS learning opportunities throughout a year of change. Registration is now open.
May 6, 3:00 - 4:00 pm: Code Jumper Learn about Code Jumper, a tactile coding tool used by students with visual impairment and blindness that puts physical "blocks" of code in your hands.
April 21, 3:00 - 4:00 pm: CSforAll Meet-Up - Unplugging CS for School Library Month We'll explore CS readings and unplugged resources in the CSinPA toolkits and discuss ways to use them to engage students. Register on the PaTTAN website.
We're excited to kick off Women's History Month by recognizing PA schools awarded the 2020 Advanced Placement (AP) CS Female Diversity Award given to schools with females representing 50%+ of all CS exam takers, or a percentage of CS exam takers meeting or exceeding the school's female population.
Michael Lee (United SD), Jeffrey Wile (Warwick SD), Josh Fleming (Palmyra Area SD), Luke Herron (Keystone Central SD), Megan Altebrando (Montoursville Area SD), Jesse Saunders (Avella Area SD), Gerald Aungst (Cheltenham SD), Robert Svitilla (Saucon Valley SD) PaTTAN Ed-SLAM: Feb.
We celebrated the end of our 2018-19 PAsmart Targeted Grant cohorts and welcomed educators into our 2019-20 cohorts. Inspired by the discussion and collaboration of the 300+ in attendance at our virtual CSforAll-PA Summit in June, we restructured the CSforAll-PA Schoology course to support the community year-round.
