Interest in Cybersecurity Program of Study Emerging

Over the past few years California teacher-leaders have worked with Cisco Systems and Cisco Networking Academy staff to establish three high quality courses that align with industry certifications and that focus on cyber-security.   These courses when taken as a sequence represent a program of study that will enable students to earn industry certification and acquire
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Free Monthly Meetings for Exploring Computer Science!

Code.org has just launched Monthly Meetings to bring community to teachers who use the Exploring Computer Science (ECS) curriculum.  ECS may be taught as an academic or Career Technical Education course. The first meeting was held on September 1st and was recorded for those who did not attend. Flo Vaughn, a veteran ECS teacher from
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SF Bay Area Cybersecurity Educator Symposium Announced

John Mummert, Vice President of Workforce Development assigned to the Bay Area Community College Consortium is asking high school teachers, community college faculty, university faculty, staff, and administrators in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley area to save the date if they are interested in attending a symposium on Cybersecurity. Registration information available by October 1, 2015.
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Funding for School Project Ideas: Think it Up!

Do your students have a project they would like to fund? The Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) is launching a new initiative called “Think it Up” to invite public middle and high school students to work with their teachers to develop projects that draw on their passions and help pursue their educational goals. Posted on thinkitup.org
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