Create Performance Task Workshop
 February 9, 2021, 5:00 pm CT

Do you have questions on the new Create Performance Task for AP CSP? Are you unsure how to guide your students to complete the requirements? Join us for this interactive workshop on Create. Meet with other CSP teachers to discuss questions and challenges you are facing as well as share ideas on how you can help your students succeed.

Prerequisite: Be familiar with the Create Task Description and Scoring Guidelines. See the College Board's Create Task Deep Dive Webinar Recording

Please register in advance for this workshop. The capacity is limited to 25 teachers.

CSTA Self-Reflection and Roadmap for all CS Teachers
February 16, 2021, 5:00 pm CT

This interactive webinar will introduce teachers to the CSTA Standards for CS Teachers and associated resources. In particular, we will share how to use the Self-Reflection Checklist to help identify strengths and areas of growth and the accompanying Roadmap to Professional Learning, which provides all CS teachers a path toward specific professional learning needs. The webinar will be led by Dan Blier and Vicky Sedgwick, who helped to develop the resources. NCCSE will also share how inclusivecsteaching.org can be used to support professional learning goals.

CSTA's Equity in CS Summit
March 06, 2021

"The CSTA Equity Fellows 2020-2021 Cohort is pleased to present the CSTA Equity in Action Summit. This one-day virtual event brings together K-12 CS teachers to call out inequities of access and achievement in marginalized groups and to share strategies and resources to empower and equip teachers in addressing the digital divide." 

Register Here

Facilitators are a critical and important part of supporting the success of the project. PD Facilitators work closely with a small group of 10-15 participating teachers in a professional learning community (PLC). PD Facilitators provide ongoing support and encouragement throughout the professional development and school year. The deadline to apply is March 15, 2021, 11:59 PM PST.
 

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The 2021 RESPECT Conference Seeks Program Committee Members
May 23-27, 2021

The 2021 Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT) Conference solicits program committee members to serve as reviewers for research papers, experience reports, position papers, posters, panels, and lightning talks. RESPECT is intended to serve as a premier venue for peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary research on broadening participation in computing (BPC). To celebrate our sixth year anniversary, our RESPECT 2021 theme is “From Broadening Participation to Justice-Centered CS Education.” RESPECT 2021 will be held virtually on May 23-27, 2021. We invite those interested in serving on the program committee to submit your information (including all types of submissions you are interested in reviewing, via https://tinyurl.com/respect21review.

Counselors Can Actively Engage a Diverse Range of Girls in Computing Science Learning Opportunities

Share this article with your school's counselor to help give insight on active recruiting techniques. The four factors discussed are Interest, Confidence, Belonging, and Identity. The bottom of the article also has some excellent resources attached! Click here to view the link. 

FREE Training Course on Diversity in Open Source
                       

"Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation (LFC102) is a new training course from The Linux Foundation and National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) and is designed to provide essential background knowledge and practical skills to create an inclusive culture in the open source community."

FREE Training Course Becoming a More Equitable Educator: Mindsets and Practices

The course is free and it is recommended that you and a colleague(s) take it together. Reaching out to a small group who might want to take the course with you can help to understand your context, the students that are in your school, and the culture of the place that you're working with. Click here to learn more about the course. 

The College Board Female Diversity Awards 

The College Board recognized 1,119 schools for achieving 50% or more female students taking either AP computer science course or exceeding that of the school's female population during the 2019-2020 school year. This is an increase of nearly 37%, the 2018-2019 school year had 818 schools meet this achievement.

Female Diversity Awards go to schools that attain female student representation and are helping to close the gender equity gap in AP Computer Science Principles in 2020-21. Last school year, over 20 of the recognized schools were Mobile CSP schools! Congratulations to all of the awardees!

To read more about this or to share it along click the link here. 

Calling All Girls and Non-Binary Students

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All Star Code: FREE Virtual Summer Intensive Coding Program for High School Men of Color

The organizations partnering to launch this video are nonprofits led by people of color, all of whom have spent years on broadening participation and access, and we are delighted to be working together. 

Free virtual Winter Camps with Microsoft Store are open for registration. For scheduled public events,
please RSVP to any of our available workshops. They have some newly released exciting winter-
themed events from dog sledding to Smithsonian Museum exhibits! All workshops are meant for students ages 8 and older unless otherwise stated.