CSP Providers & Teachers Forum
SIGCSE 2018 — Baltimore, Maryland
Overview
The CS Principles Providers and Teachers Forum is the inaugural gathering of CS Principles educators, providers and teachers in a structured session at SIGCSE. This forum was created to fill the need for a community for CS Principles providers and teachers to discuss best practices, feedback, or share teaching experiences.
The CS Principles Providers and Teachers Forum aims to increase collaboration and discussion among College Board endorsed providers and teachers by offering a diverse agenda. Topics that may be discussed this year include but are not limited to:
- Successes and failures of CSP professional development
- Common teaching issues providers and teachers encounter
- Teacher recruitment strategies and keeping in touch with teachers
- Student recruitment strategies
- Preparing for the AP CSP exam
- How to read the results of the AP CSP exam
Logistics
The Forum is a half-day morning session, on .
We will release the specific location closer to the date of the conference, but it will be somewhere at the Baltimore Convention Center with the rest of SIGCSE.
Breakfast and refreshments will be served.
Contact Email
If you have any questions, please email sigcse-csp-forum@bjc.berkeley.edu
Sign Up To Attend
Please go to https://bjc.link/csp-forum-signup to sign up to attend the CSP Forum. The CSP forum is primarily intended for CSP curriculum providers, teachers, and others who are working on various parts of CSP.
Signups will close at Friday, February 9, 2018 at 11:59PM PST.
Topic Submissions
We are looking for topics that would be of broad interest to the CSP Community. We’re hoping to keep presentations to a 15 minute limit to ensure there is time for discussion and questions. However, please do not feel limited by the presentation format! We’re open to ideas and suggestions.
Presentation submissions have now closed. Thanks for your interest!
Agenda
The day will be organized as a series of short presentations, with ample time for discussion.
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 8:00 - 8:30 AM | Breakfast Buffet Provided by the generous support of Google for Education. |
| 8:30 - 8:35 AM | Welcome & Introductions |
| CS Principles Program and Progress Overview | |
| 8:35 - 8:50 AM | The Past, Present, and Future of Computer Science Principles (slides) Owen Astrachan |
| 8:50 - 9:05 AM | From CS10K to CSforAll: Outcomes and Status of NSF Funding (slides) Jan Cuny |
| 9:05 - 9:15 AM | Q & A |
| PD Best Practices | |
| 9:15 - 9:25 AM | Creating Community in Online Professional Development (slides) Jen Rosato, Mobile CSP |
| 9:25 - 9:35 AM | Lessons Learned Offering CS PD for High School Teachers (slides) Leslie Keller, BJC |
| 9:35 - 9:45 AM | Facilitators Need Professional Development Too (slides) GT Wrobel, Brook Osborne, Baker Franke, code.org |
| 9:45 - 10:00 AM | Q & A |
| 10:00 - 10:10 AM | Break |
| Recruitment Lightning Talks | |
| 10:10 - 10:15 AM | Successful Student Recruitment Through Proper Planning (slides) Justin Cannady, Curriculum Provider, UTeach |
| 10:15 - 10:20 AM | Recruiting for Diversity (slides) Kimberly Hermans, High School Teacher, BJC |
| 10:20 - 10:25 AM | Recruiting AVID Students for AP CSP (slides) Amanda Lattimore, Resource Teacher, code.org |
| 10:25 - 10:30 AM | Recruiting Teachers for a New AP CSP PD Program in Hawaii (slides) Debasis Bhattacharya, Faculty, University of Hawaii |
| 10:30 - 10:35 AM | Start a Computer Science Honor Society Chapter! (slides) Buffie Holley, High School Teacher, CodeVA |
| 10:35 - 10:40 AM | If You Invited Them, They Will Come! Support Students by Offering a Safe Place Where They Can Meet (slides) Deborah Kariuki, High School Teacher, CodeHS / code.org |
| 10:40 - 10:55 AM | Q & A |
| 10:55 - 11:05 AM | Break |
| Teacher Needs | |
| 11:05 - 11:15 AM | Seen by a Teacher: Obstacles in CSP Education (slides) Tsee Lee, High School Teacher, UTeach / BJC Jessica Du, High School Teacher, BJC |
| 11:15 - 11:25 AM | What Teachers Need in the Classroom to Teach CSP Effectively and Efficiently (slides) Dianne O'Grady-Cunniff, High School Teacher, CS Matters Marlyand |
| 11:25 - 11:35 AM | Curriculum Revisions: Empowering Master Teachers (slides) Jen Rosato, Curriculum Provider, Mobile CSP |
| 11:35 - 11:45 AM | How Does Equity in Computer Science Education Look Like? (slides) Deborah Kariuki, High School Teacher, CodeHS / code.org |
| 11:45 - 11:50 AM | Q & A |
| AP CS Principles Exam | |
| 11:50 - 12:05 PM | Lessons Learned: AP CS Principles at CodeHS (slides) Jeremy Keeshin, CodeHS |
| 12:05 - 12:30 PM | Discussion: CSP Year One - What happened? What happens next? GT Wrobel, Brook Osborne, Baker Franke, code.org Leslie Keller, BJC |
| 12:30 PM | Close |
Program Committee
- Lauren Mock, The Beauty and Joy of Computing, UC, Berkeley
- Michael Ball, The Beauty and Joy of Computing, UC, Berkeley
We look forward to seeing you at the CS Principles Providers and Teachers Forum!