Category: K-12 Leadership Pathway

Information on infusing leadership and life skills in K-12 education.

Zynga Volunteers teach Game Design to San Francisco Students!

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This is to share with you a great example of a successful business/school partnership around game design. Zynga is located in San Francisco and recently met with teachers at Balboa High School’s Academy of Information Technology to plan, design and pitch a new game.     See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PBwqXPkkjtA Volunteers from the online social game
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TEALS Program Recruiting Partners for 2014-15

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The TEALS (Technology Education and Literacy in Schools) program is ready to start recruiting new school partners for the 2014-15 school year. TEALS (www.tealsk12.org) is a Microsoft YouthSpark program that helps high schools build a sustainable computer science (CS) program. I’ve heard from many teachers that they would like more professional development to better teach
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Standards as Guideposts and not Straitjackets

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It was an honor to work with many teachers and business leaders in developing the updated Career Technical Education standards for the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) career sector. I know the new ICT standards embrace the knowledge and interests of teachers throughout California because they were all engaged in the process through a survey
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Updated California CTE Standards Published

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The California Department of Education Press office has completed their work on the newly adopted Career Technical Education Model Curriculum Standards.  The introduction and industry sector standards for all sectors are posted on the website here: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ct/sf/ctemcstandards.asp I’m providing links to the general Introduction and Information and Communication Technologies standards: CTE Standards Introduction ICT Model
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