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<font face="Lucida Grande">Huh, I hadn't seen that NASBE report. I
wonder where on earth they got their information.<br>
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I do think we should try to get some kind of commitment
submitted. Dianne and Megean, can you take the lead?<br>
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Marie<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/2/17 4:20 PM, Dianne
O'Grady-Cunniff wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I added notes from today's CS for All FAQ meeting
to our notes folder.
<div>Highlights:<br>
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<div><span
id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-ba0a93ff-a479-24c5-a05c-9a3f88173b16">
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CS for all summit</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Oct 16, targeting local Missouri and also rural districts. Not likely for us.</span></p>
<p
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Oct 17, could be interesting, much will also be streamed.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Commitments</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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. </span><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/csforall-fact-sheet-9-13-16-long.pdf" style="text-decoration-line:none" moz-do-not-send="true">https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/csforall-fact-sheet-9-13-16-long.pdf</a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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, <a href="http://www.nasbe.org/press-releases/maryland-arkansas-seen-as-leaders-in-ensuring-access-to-qualified-computer-science-teachers/" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.nasbe.org/press-releases/maryland-arkansas-seen-as-leaders-in-ensuring-access-to-qualified-computer-science-teachers/</a> , <a href="http://www.nasbe.org/wp-content/uploads/Tilley-Coulson_CS-Final.pdf" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.nasbe.org/wp-content/uploads/Tilley-Coulson_CS-Final.pdf</a> I'm sorry, but the Maryland part of this is BS. "</span>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"</p>
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Leading up to the summit, Cs for All will report on updates to previous commitments. They’d like: Infographics, stats, videos, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">tag things with #CSforAll. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Email to </span><a
href="mailto:summit@csforall.org"
style="text-decoration-line:none"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">summit@csforall.org</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by 8/18 for early bird commitments</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
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<p
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b><u>Our commitment</u></b></span></p>
<p
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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, </span>CS
course listings and an annual CS education event
in every system. Gender,
race, and socioeconomic
gaps measured and
targeted. and <span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p>
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<p
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span><br>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b><u>$$</u></b></span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">They don’t know about funding yet. No idea how much, or if they’ll have funding.</span></p>
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<div><b><u>Something not in the meeting notes:</u></b>
<div>I don't quite see what CS for All is doing for
anybody yet. Perhaps this summit will prove useful.</div>
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<li>Announcing commitments in a large national
announcement is minimally useful as far as I can
tell. <br>
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<li>all the members they have do not yet seem to serve
any purpose</li>
<li>their website does not yet provide much useful
information, just ways to contact vendors.</li>
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