Computer Science Teacher

Well school is back for real now. I had students in class most of last week so we’re completely live. I have great students. My Honors Prog...

Last year I changed (improved I hope) every PowerPoint deck I used based on how the presentation when and how I realized I could make things...

I meet my freshmen today! Yeah! I am excited. I’m pretty sure I’m ready. I’ve even got a new LCD projector. Although as someone pointed out ...

I'm in school today - first day back for teachers. I guess that means that summer is over for me. Every fall and through the year I alwa...

Recently I was asked an interesting question: “if a foresighted student asked how to prepare to be a CS teacher, what advice would you give ...

My summer break is almost over. Many of you are back already. Where does the time fly? Last week was interesting and I started (finally) to ...

I haven’t been at the ICER Conference but a lot of my friends are there and between their tweets and other tweets using the #icer2015 hash ...

Seriously now! Just how many drag and drop programming languages/environments do we really need? Differences between them are small. The lis...

Chris Lehmann is principal of the Science Leadership Academy. “SLA is an inquiry-driven, project-based high school focused on 21st century l...

Interesting week last week. I spent a couple of days at Harvard (a liberal arts college in Cambridge MA) learning about their plans to adapt...

The last few days were spent at Harvard University attending CS50 Boot camp in Cambridge (Videos of most of the talks should be at that lin...

I’ve been hearing about teachers headed back to school already. Many more will be starting back over the next month. Almost three more weeks...

Attending several conferences this summer I have talked to any number of people about this blog. Several people told me how much they apprec...

I love CS Teaching Tips . I follow them on Twitter and Facebook as well as visiting the web site from time to time. Full list of links at th...

I read blogs by smart interesting people so I can be exposed to new or different ideas. Eugene Wallingford is one of those smart interesting...

The early part of this last week was in Charleston SC for a great mini conference. I blogged about it earlier in the week. The rest of the w...

Today was the second day of a creative mini conference of educators. You can read about Charleston Teach Meet Day One   here . We started of...

This week I am in Charleston SC at Porter-Gaud School meeting with about a dozen teachers from around the US and two teachers from Scotland....

If this is Monday it must be Charleston. Seriously though I am in Charleston SC for a two day mini conference with a small group of great ed...

The 2015 Annual CSTA Conference is in the books now. Over 350 people attended in Grapevine TX for 14 three-hour workshops and 24 concurrent ...