I wrote up a report on our Summit on Computing Education in South Carolina for Blog@CALM (and here’s the link back to my original post on the summit). It went well, in that we got the kind of attendees we wanted and had the kinds of discussions we wanted. I was particularly pleased with the energy up through the final session. Barbara Eric son did a nice job of collecting a bunch of URL’s to resources for new Computer Science teachers, and then created a PowerPoint tour of them. I've posted these on a new Resources for New CS Teachers page here on the blog.
I learned a lot at the Summit. The issues in South Carolina are different from the ones in Georgia, and they’re different again in Massachusetts and California. That’s what’s making this ECEP Alliance work interesting and complicated. What’s interesting is that we’re starting to see some common themes. I wouldn't call these experimental results, since you can’t easily do experiments comparing states. Instead, these are some observations from our first four case studies. Having a statewide organization is an enormous advantage: We work in California through Debra Richardson who heads up an organization called ACCESS with an Executive Director focused just on CS Ed in the state, Julie Fla pan. ACCESS is about making computing education policy reform happen in California. That’s a huge advantage — a single point of contact to other efforts, a coordinating point for the state.
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