[Csmatters] Pat Y at steering committee June 1

[Dianne O'Grady-Cunniff]

Pat Y has agreed to talk for a half hour at the steering committee meeting
on June 1 9:45-10:15

He'll do a quick recap of what's happening around the country/world. Then
give some details about ideas for moving forward like future funding
requests, working with business, and the policy recommendations he sent
Andrew Coy. (I copied them below for those who didn't see them yet)

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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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From: Pat Yongpradit <pat at code.org>
Date: Fri, May 11, 2018 at 4:19 PM
Subject: Policy recommendations to add to report
To: Andrew Coy <andrew at digitalharbor.org>


Hey Andrew - I added two recommendations that particularly apply to
diversity as suggestions in the doc, but here are ones that are more
general - please stick them in where you see fit. I am suggesting them
because I want clear policies that legislators (or the gov) can act on in
bills next year.

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Here are policies that will help Maryland leverage its opportunity to lead
the nation when it comes to adopting policies to support computer science.

   1. Provide incentives for preservice and inservice teachers to be
   certified or endorsed in computer science. Examples:
      1. The state provides scholarships for preservice teachers to take
      computer science.
      2. The state provides funds to teacher preparation institutions to
      establish computer science education programs (either full pathways or
      add-on endorsements from a few courses in computer science education).
   2. Provide incentives for new teachers being hired as computer science
   teachers.
   3. Assign a state-level K-12 CS supervisor in the division of curriculum
   and instruction who is clearly able to develop and create state policy,
   recommend and guide the development of state regulations and legislation,
   and/or be a decision maker about computer science implementation including
   more than one of the following: professional learning, standards
   development, course identification/course coding, teacher certification.
   This supervisor will liaise with colleagues in career and technical
   education to integrate CTE pathways with curriculum and instruction.
   4. Require all institutions of higher education to allow computer
   science to satisfy a core admission requirement.
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