<div dir="ltr">Team,<div><br></div><div>This is from GT, the Code.org lead on curriculum for CSP. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>Dianne</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">GT Wrobel</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gt@code.org">gt@code.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 1:52 PM<br><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">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.</span><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Our team has<span> </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1in5slXp6BwDbYazB76-c5-ytDhF8SZzcR9eogmNyFdg/edit?usp=sharing" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">drafted a letter</a><span> </span>that we hope your team will review, comment on, and eventually sign.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Let me know if this sounds good to you.<span> </span><b>We'd like to have all comments by EOD Thursday</b><span> </span>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.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">GT</div><div class="m_2125277915224747250gmail-yj6qo m_2125277915224747250gmail-ajU" style="outline:none;padding:10px 0px;width:22px;margin:2px 0px 0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:40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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Dianne O'Grady-Cunniff</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Acting Director, Maryland Center for Computing Education</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">CS Matters in Maryland</div><div style="font-size:small">VP Maryland Computer Science Teachers' Association</div></div></div></div></div>
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