[Csmatters] Joint Letter to CB about timeline for proposed changes from CSP providers as a group

[Dianne O'Grady-Cunniff]

Team,

This is from GT, the Code.org lead on curriculum for CSP.

The key request to make of the College Board from the CSP providers as a
whole is to push the timeline back a year to give providers time to adapt
our curriculum, change our PD, and find ways to support our existing (often
new to CS) teachers to prepare for changes to the CSP course and exam.

I'd like to add our names to the letter in support. There's a link to a
rough draft of the letter below that outlines the key concerns, so if
anyone has feedback or feels averse to adding our names to the letter,
please let me know!

Dianne


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: GT Wrobel <gt at code.org>
Date: Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 1:52 PM

I'm reaching out because coming out of the meeting in GA last week a number
of providers are considering a joint letter to the CB and I wanted to give
your team a chance to join us.

There were a number of topics discussed last week but the one which we
sensed most teams were aligned on was the infeasability of the timeline of
the proposed changes. We're planning to send a joint letter about this
concern to the College Board (and by extension, the development committee)
formalizing that feedback. Note our team has separate concerns about the
content of the changes that we plan to share, but in the short term we
wanted to address our concerns about the timeline.

Our team has drafted a letter
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1in5slXp6BwDbYazB76-c5-ytDhF8SZzcR9eogmNyFdg/edit?usp=sharing>
 that we hope your team will review, comment on, and eventually sign.

Let me know if this sounds good to you. *We'd like to have all comments by
EOD Thursday* though earlier is of course appreciated. Afterwards we plan
to consolidate and share final drafts for approval. I know we are moving
quickly so in the meantime don't hesitate to reach out to me with questions
or thoughts.

GT




-- 
Dianne O'Grady-Cunniff
Acting Director, Maryland Center for Computing Education
CS Matters in Maryland
VP Maryland Computer Science Teachers' Association
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