Thank you for sharing your video! I'm curious if you are working with a particular AP CSP curriculum, or is your project more general?  Are there plans to disseminate the CL resources designed by teachers?  How do you plan to measure the impact of the project?

So great to see so much collaboration and networking! Especially since we know isolation can be a challenge for CS teachers. Have educators continued to collaborate and communicate after the workshop? Have most of the teachers implemented what they've learned? Have you experienced any implementation challenges? Thank you in advance for any additional info! 

Thanks Abby!

The workshop that is shown in our video documents the collaboration in our final project year, where we brought back teachers from previous year workshops who were collaborating and implementing the ideas in their classroom. After the workshop, the participants continued to work on the activities and lesson plans that are in the workbook (finalized in Spring 2019). These are lessons that the contributing teachers have used successfully in their own classes.

• http://bit.ly/apcsp-cl-book1

Thanks again

Jeff

Great stuff Jeff (and wider team) - really appreciate your having your teachers tell the story here!  Quick question - was participating in the CSP professional development open to all teachers or geared toward existing math/ tech instructors?

Hi Quinn,

Thanks for checking out our video - hope you are doing well!

Our application process (from 2015 through 2018) was open to all teachers, regardless of their background. We just needed verification that they were actually teaching CSP (our first year the teachers were still preparing as pre-AP before the 2017 first exam). Although we were open to all teachers, the majority appeared to be from math/career tech.

Take care!

Jeff

A wonderful project with powerful and significant results for broadening participation in computing. Hopefully, teachers will browse our resources and find useful ideas for their own CS Principles courses! 

I appreciate the focus on cooperative learning structures and strategies. I'm curious about how such a focus might have encouraged teachers to cooperate with other teachers they met in a workshop after they left the workshop and worked in their classrooms.

Great work Jeff and team! Hearing the energy and excitement from the educators that are in the video is inspiring. They clearly are clearly connected to the cooperative learning model.  

Great work, Jeff! I see some similarities in approach with our Attract-Inspire-Mentor teacher transdisciplinary teacher professional development approach here in MS, and we can certainly learn from your best practices.