OPAS Succeed & Prepare Workgroups & the ETIC CS Task Force host
A Community Conversation: Diversity in the CS Classroom
Workshop - August 19, 2008 - North Salem High School
please feel free to request additional materials & links
- Day's Agenda & Roster - pdf - Agenda also anchored on this page
- Eda Davis-Lowe's handout: STEM Diversity Benefits - doc - pdf (please feel free to modify for your own use or particular audience)
- OPAS White Paper - "Fostering STEM Diversity" - pdf
- Don Kirkwood's outline of NBA with timing (calendar) considerations added - doc - pdf
- Don Kirkwood's Stats for North Salem's Program - pdf
- Don Kirkwood's Letter Describing NBA with pictures - pdf
- Don Kirkwood's Presentation to OACTE April 2008 - pdf - ppt - includes occupational outlook data, correspondence to new high school graduation requirements, test data and other great stuff
- Don Domes ELL Program slides - ppt - pdf
- Don Domes Enriching STEM slides - ppt - pdf
- Brainstorming Worksheet - Implementation of Best Practices in a Local Setting - doc - pdf
- Planning worksheets
- Strategic Implementation - doc - pdf
- Plan of Action - doc - pdf
- Best Buy Donation Program - pdf
- Soliciting Donations
- Dave Jarecki's Writing Tips - pdf
- Sarah Costello's Grant Tips - pdf
- Jo's boilerplate begging letter - doc - pdf
Changes to This Page:
- Don Kirkwood's Outline of North Salem's Computer Science Development Program - pdf (this may not be the most recent version -- I'll work on that -- Jo 9/4/08)
- Don Kirkwood's Stats for North Salem's Program - pdf
- Don Kirkwood's Letter Describing NBA with pictures - pdf
- Don Kirkwood's Presentation to OACTE April 2008 - pdf - ppt - includes occupational outlook data, correspondence to new high school graduation requirements, test data and other great stuff
- Eda Davis-Lowe's handout: STEM Diversity Benefits - doc - pdf (please feel free to modify for your own use or particular audience)
- ADDED September 12, 2008
- New Section "Links of Interest to CS Teachers" anchored below
- Teach Scheme discussion
- Article on increasing diversity through CS admissions policy at Carnegie Mellon - "the students got more interesting"
- ACM K 12 Model Curriculum, 2nd edition
- CS Unplugged
- ADDED September 15, 2008
- Don Kirkwood's outline of NBA with timing (calendar) considerations added - doc - pdf
- ADDED September 24, 2008
- Don Domes ELL Program slides - ppt - pdf
- Don Domes Enriching STEM slides - ppt - pdf
- Link: Math-in-CTE information: Building Academic Skills in Context: Testing the Value of Enhanced Math Learning in CTE. National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (NRCCTE) at the University of Minnesota. 2005. Executive Summary (2 pg pdf). Complete Report (165 pg pdf color). Website.
- ADDED September 30, 2008
- Links: Email from the AP-Compsci listserv on recruiting girls and minorities, the Georgia Tech experience - pdf - including a recommendation for Stuck in the Shallow End by Jane Margolis, MIT Press - link to Amazon
- ADDED October 21, 2008
- Link to the SMILE program at Oregon State University
- STILL to come as of October 21, 2008
- Report/record of the event with Executive Summary
Agenda for the Day
- 8:30 Best Practices in Diversity in the K12 Classroom – an overview – Eda Davis-Lowe
- Exemplars Don Kirkwood & students, Don Domes
- 10:30 Brainstorm in small groups with recorder/ facilitators:
Implementation of Best Practices in a Local Setting – Think about:
- What are the biggest diversity issues you face? Any of socioeconomic, gender, ethnicity, language, cultural, post-secondary plans or something else?
- What are the biggest challenges to diversity in your school or classroom?
- Are there some effective practices used in your school or your classroom to address these issues?
- Are there key components we are seeing repeatedly?
- Which of the Best Practices we've seen so far do you think would work for you?
- Who or what, other than large amounts of money and FTE, would assist you in establishing these best practices in your classroom or school?
- How would you secure that assistance?
- 12:00 Box Lunch on site
- 12:30 Report back of small groups
- 1:00 Getting from ideas to plans – an example
- 1:15 Reflect, write and critique (Chris, Eda, Don, Don, & Jo) initial implementation plan – break
- Template worksheets are available, if you choose to use them for this exercise
- 2:45 Share and critique plans
- 4:00 Equity minigrant application
Minigrant Applications are due Monday, September 22, 2008 to Jo Oshiro via email; signature page may be faxed if you are unable to scan and send. Award notification is in early October. Techstart, not OUS, will administer the grants.
As of September 12, 2008 there is an ongoing conversation on obtaining a large donation suitable for door prizes. Jo will keep you informed and hopes to have good news come October.
Links of Interest to CS Teachers
- TeachScheme discussion thread documented - pdf
- one answer to the question, "What is a good language for an intro CS class?"
- cs4hs - pdf -
from Carnegie Mellon, this program of teacher workshops informs on the uses of CS in many disciplines, and focuses on incorporating CS into science and math curricula. This particular document is the response of the UW cs4hs coordinator to OCSTA President Ron Tenison's questions after attending the workshop.
- Article on Carnegie-Mellon CS admittance policy & results – “In a More Balanced Computer Science Environment, Similarity is the Difference and Computer Science is the Winner”, by Lenore Blum and Carol Frieze -- “now the students are more interesting”
- ACM’s 2nd edition of the K12 Model Curriculum -
Not a turnkey curricular package, survey comments show it to be valuable for writing
standards, curriculum and classes in the US and abroad.
• CS Unplugged -- “... Unplugged teaches principles of computer science such as binary
numbers, algorithms and data compression through games and puzzles that use cards,
string, crayons and lots of running around ...
Unplugged is suitable for people of all ages, from elementary school to university, and
from many countries and backgrounds. Unplugged has been used around the world for
over fifteen years, in classrooms, science centers, homes ..."
- Math-in-CTE information: Building Academic Skills in Context: Testing the Value of Enhanced Math Learning in CTE. National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (NRCCTE) at the University of Minnesota. 2005. Executive Summary (2 pg pdf). Complete Report (165 pg pdf color). Website.
- Email from the AP-Compsci listserv on recruiting girls and minorities, the Georgia Tech experience - pdf - including a recommendation for Stuck in the Shallow End by Jane Margolis, MIT Press - link to Amazon
- Oregon State University's Science and Math Investigative Learning Experiences (SMILE) Program website
please feel free to request additional materials & links
For questions or information regarding OPAS and its workgroups,
please
email Jo Oshiro or call (503) 821.1139.
