[Csmatters] CS for All FAQ call today with Ruthe Farmer

[Dianne O'Grady-Cunniff]

I added notes from today's CS for All FAQ meeting to our notes folder.
Highlights:

CS for all summit

Oct 16, targeting local Missouri and also rural districts. Not likely for
us.

Oct 17, could be interesting, much will also be streamed.

Commitments

So far 548 organizations made commitments. I didn’t see anything MD on the
9/13/16 fact sheet. We must be on an older one.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/csforall-fact-sheet-9-13-16-long.pdf

Does anybody know about this? National Association of State Boards of
Education (NASBE) released a State Innovations publication last September
highlighting best practices in supporting K-12 CS education in Arkansas and
Maryland,
http://www.nasbe.org/press-releases/maryland-arkansas-seen-as-leaders-in-ensuring-access-to-qualified-computer-science-teachers/
, http://www.nasbe.org/wp-content/uploads/Tilley-Coulson_CS-Final.pdf I'm
sorry, but the Maryland part of this is BS. "As part of its focus on
teacher preparation, Maryland is ... offering its schools stipends for
educating preservice teachers, and creating dedicated computer science
teaching positions. ... At the local level, there are also computer science
supervisors, who oversee computer science instruction for schools within
their district. At the state level, an education program specialist is
responsible for collaborating with district leaders on computer science
initiatives.... state education agency staff are already developing
engaging instructional materials, including a toolkit with resources that
address related skills for children as young as pre-K"

Leading up to the summit, Cs for All will report on updates to previous
commitments. They’d like: Infographics, stats, videos, tag things with
#CSforAll. Email to summit at csforall.org by 8/18 for early bird commitments


*Our commitment*

We, as the MCCE, don't really exist yet. We can't speak for MSDE, but we
could collaborate with them to agree on a commitment. Our 15 year plan, by
the end of 2018, is to have P-12 standards accepted, CS course listings and
an annual CS education event in every system. Gender, race, and
socioeconomic gaps measured and targeted. and trained CS teachers in 50% of
MD schools. We could also safely say that over 500 MD elementary teachers
would have had a full day of training on CS since between myself and
Gretchen I'm pretty sure we've already trained at least 400 already.


We, as CS Matters in Maryland, can really only commit to our own project.
We can commit to providing teacher PD materials to allow anyone to run a 2
week workshop to train high school teachers to teach our AP CS-P materials
by the end of 2017.

*$$*

They don’t know about funding yet. No idea how much, or if they’ll have
funding.

*Something not in the meeting notes:*
I don't quite see what CS for All is doing for anybody yet. Perhaps this
summit will prove useful.

   - Announcing commitments in a large national announcement is minimally
   useful as far as I can tell.
   - all the members they have do not yet seem to serve any purpose
   - their website does not yet provide much useful information, just ways
   to contact vendors.


-- 
Dianne O'Grady-Cunniff, CS Matters in Maryland
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