Computer Science Teacher

February break is over. I’m not actually in school today as I am working with one of the writing teams working on a framework for K-12 Compu...

Like most classroom teachers I really hate missing class time with my students. So I’m pretty deliberate about the time that I do miss. I’m ...

Dawn DuPriest posted an interesting project on her blog - Teaching event-based programming – a traffic light . I like it a lot. It’s a good ...

Just because I have been on school vacation this week doesn’t mean the learning stops. In fact I have taken advantage of the relaxed time to...

A lot of schools are adding the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles course for next year. That means that a lot of teachers are l...

It seems like one “silver bullet” after another keeps popping up to solve the computer science diversity problem. Today’s solution was drone...

It’s likely to be quite on this blog this week. My school in on February vacation. I was pretty busy getting a lot of things done last week ...

People using Small Basic may be interested in the LitDev (little developer) extension for Small Basic. They add a lot of functionality to t...

Let me start with a statement of belief about computer science education in K-12 schools. Teaching computer science is no more about creati...

What a week. No school Monday because of snow. Stayed home sick on Friday. The first is a a lot more common than the second. I really hate m...

Have you bought lift tickets at a ski resort lately? There are a lot of options. Different age groups, different days (week days, weekends, ...

We’re into the second semester at my school and things are off to a good start. Although we did miss a day last Friday because of snow. I ha...

Now this is interesting. Not often you think of Microsoft and Open Source in the same sentence. Although it does seem to be happening more a...

This announcement went out to CSTA members (and others) this week. This award does include computer science teachers ! The Presidential Aw...

One thing I am constantly looking to do is to learn from other computer science teachers. There are some good online communities for this pu...

Last week about 25 or so computer science educators met in Austin TX for two days to work on A Framework for K-12 Computer Science Education...

Initially the big deal for me last week was working on the CS K-12 Framework (an effort by code.org, CSTA and ACM) and then the President’s ...

Those of us involved in Computer Science education were pretty excited when President Obama mentioned computer science education in his Stat...

Looking to learn from CS teachers. I hate reinventing the wheel.  One of the things I would like to learn more about is teaching the use of ...

There are lots of cool gadgets out there these days. A lot of them are being promoted as ways to get students excited about developing softw...