<div dir="ltr">Pat Y has agreed to talk for a half hour <span 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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">at the steering committee meeting on June 1 9:45-10:15</span><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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">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)</div><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 style="font-size:small">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size:small">From:<span> </span><b class="gmail_sendername">Pat Yongpradit</b><span> </span><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pat@code.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">pat@code.org</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, May 11, 2018 at 4:19 PM<br>Subject: Policy recommendations to add to report<br>To: Andrew Coy <<a href="mailto:andrew@digitalharbor.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">andrew@digitalharbor.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>--<br><div><br></div><div>Here are policies that will help Maryland leverage its opportunity to <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">lead the nation when it comes to adopting policies to support computer science.</span><br><div><ol 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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><li style="margin-left:15px">Provide incentives for preservice and inservice teachers to be certified or endorsed in computer science. Examples: <ol style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><li style="margin-left:15px">The state provides scholarships for preservice teachers to take computer science.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">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).  </li></ol></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Provide incentives for new teachers being hired as computer science teachers.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> liaise with colleagues in career and technical education to integrate </span>CTE pathways with curriculum and instruction.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Require all<span> </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">institutions of higher education to</span> allow computer science to satisfy a core admission requirement.</li></ol><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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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