Teacher Resources

BJC Student Pages
BJC Assessments and Solutions are on a separate website, available only to teachers. Sign up for access.
Snap!
BJC Teachers Piazza Group - All teachers should join. This is the primary way that PD leaders and the developers of BJC and Snap! communicate with teachers.
BJC Professional Development

Convenient short links for you and your students:

About BJC

Syllabus and Pacing
- BJC Syllabus - for use with the 2020 revision to the AP CSP standards
- BJC Curriculum Design Principles (PDF) - a brief description of the thinking behind the course
- BJC Outline of Units (PDF) - an excerpt of the Syllabus
- First-Year Teacher Pacing Guide (PDF) - skips non-required content
- BJC Links (PDF) - a handy reference to the most essential BJC links
Mapping from AP CSP Standards to BJC
Teaching Supports
- Computing in the News
- Hybrid and Remote Teaching Tips for BJC
Projects Related to BJC at EDC
- Projects Related to BJC at EDC - learn about our other CS initiatives at EDC: BJC Sparks for middle school and early high school; elementary school math and programming; CSforAll Research-Practice Partnership with NYCPS; and improving equity in AP CSP

Support with Snap!

Snap! Community Site with sample projects
Snap! Manual and Crash Course
- Snap! Manual - also accessible by clicking the Snap! logo in the upper left corner of any Snap! window
- Snap! Crash Course with instructions, designed to help get late-added students up to speed
Snap! Cheat Sheet that translates between Snap! and AP pseudocode language, to give students before the AP exam

AP CSP College Board Resources

College Board AP Computer Science Principles site - current Course and Exam Description; AP Classroom; AP Course Audit; exam information, scoring guidelines, grader commentary, and policies; Frequently Asked Questions; teacher resources; teacher community; etc.
AP CSP Course and Exam Description - (order a hard copy here)
AP Classroom - official bank of MC questions
Other College Board Quick Links
- Past Exams Released Items with scoring guides, Chief Reader reports, and student samples
- AP Digital Portfolio General Information - information on how to set-up and use the AP Digital Portfolio
- Instructional Planning Report - detailed AP CSP score data from your previous year's classes
- How to Become an AP Reader - a great way to learn more about how the create task grading works
- College Board AP CSP Teacher Community - AP CPS specific community and forum
- College Board AP CSP Classroom Resources - AP CSP classroom resources and curriculum links
- College Board Mentoring Program - sign up to get support from a mentor teacher
- College Board Workshops and Summer Institutes - register for additional workshops and summer courses on AP CSP

Student Recruitment

Starting and Growing AP CS Principles at Your School or District

BJC Resources
- Implementation Plan Template - a document to guide discussions with school teams about growing AP CSP, including conversations addressing equity and larger CS goals
College Board Resources
- AP CSP Course Overview – succinct description of course and assessments to share with your school community
- AP CSP Brochure for Teachers and Administrators – brochure to share with your school community
- Bring AP Computer Science Principles to Your School – brochure with quick steps for starting and growing an AP CSP program

Greater BJC Community Resources

CS10, the BJC course taught at UC Berkeley: articles, lecture videos, and slide decks
Videos and Social Media
- Dan Garcia YouTube Channel - BJC lectures University of California, Berkeley
- Jens Mönig's YouTube Channel - from the creator of Snap!
- BJC CSP Instagram
- BJC CSP Facebook
- BJC CSP LinkedIn
- Videos from past versions of the BJC course
  - UC Berkeley BJC YouTube Channel - sample projects from the original college version of the curriculum
  - BJC Videos: This video playlists are from the former edX version of BJC.
    
    bjc.link/vid-1x - abstraction, functions, creativity, programming paradigms
    
    bjc.link/vid-2x - algorithms, global impact
    
    bjc.link/vid-3x - data, limits of computing, saving the world with computing
    
    bjc.link/vid-4x - recursion, higher-order function, artificial intelligence, human computer interaction

Additional Resources

Selected outside resources (not affiliated with BJC or the College Board)

CSTA - Computer Science Teachers Association
Donors Choose - crowdfunding for classroom supplies
CS Teaching Tips - includes handouts and posters
Khan Academy - a source for test-prep resources (free)
Albert.io - another source for test-prep resources (paid)
Kahoot - a game-based learning platform with user made AP CSP and BJC questions
CSEdWeek - get your school community involved in CS
Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers (book) - supplemental reading on algorithms and their social implications

Essential BJC Resources