News of particular interest to teachers.
Last month, 125 low-income youth from under-represented groups in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) from around Oakland, California became developers of technology rather than just consumers at the Level the Coding Field Hackathon. Working through a curriculum grounded in design thinking and mobile app development, 25 teams of five students in the 6-12th grades
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This is to report on the first of three Pathways to Prosperity Institutes (Institute) that was launched yesterday in Sacramento under the auspices of the California Department of Education (CDE), the California Community Colleges, the California Workforce Investment Board and the Pathways to Prosperity Network. These organizations showed strong united leadership to promote effective Career
-> Continue reading Pathways to Prosperity Institutes Call for Collaboration
Special thanks to all the teachers and administrators who took time to introduce students to coding during the recent Hour of Code week. The campaign brought attention to the need for all students to understand computational thinking and will help bring attention to education policy and decision makers on the need to make computer science
-> Continue reading Great Response to Hour of Code
Every student in the Foshay Tech Academy – and a large percentage of all students at Foshay in grades in K-12 – have completed the Hour of Code <http://csedweek.org/> challenge. The goal is to get 10 million students to code for an hour this week – the site is now up to nearly 9 million
-> Continue reading Foshay Tech Academy Responds to Hour of Code