Computer Science Teacher

What my school is doing is trying to replicate the brick-and-mortar model in the online world. Other schools are doing something more like “...

Well. we’re definitely going to stay online until May. Our last week in April is a vacation week. I am hoping it still is. What will May bri...

When administration announced we were moving to remote teaching I started adjusting my plans. Now understand that when the semester started ...

There has been a lot in the news about schools being closed and how schools are dealing with it. There seems to be everything for regular on...

For the last several years I have had international students in some of my classes. Most from China but also South Korea, Viet Nam, and Camb...

My good friend and peer teacher, Tom Indelicato and I share a morning homeroom. It’s online now of course but we join early and stay late to...

We sure are learning a lot about online classes these days. Teachers at my school are using Google Meet and Zoom in about equal numbers. Thi...

Well this is the new normal I guess. We had snow last night and several students missed homeroom this morning. I am assuming it is because o...

Boring post title I know. But I am not really concerned about attracting eyes in these crazy time. Over the weekend I found out that my inte...

As one of my co-workers put it it's been a long year this week. I might ease up on that easier say a long month this week. It sure has b...

I have no idea how long or how consistently I will be writing these posts. I guess when I have something to say. In some ways I think of thi...

I miss my students. It’s hard talking and not seeing or hearing any reactions. Are they getting my jokes? Even polite laughter and pretendin...

My advisory (homeroom) was interesting. For one thing I realized that there isn’t the chatter between students in the room. I’m pretty sure ...

Well, we’ve started. Today we only had half the classes in the rotation meet. Tomorrow we will have the second half. It’s all about getting ...

Well it happened. Like so many schools and school districts, Bishop Guertin has decided to close the building because of COVID-19. I say clo...

There is a lot of talk about teaching debugging going on there days. Amy Ko of the University of Washington did a podcast a short time ago o...

Getting more computer science education to more people is something I think about a lot. Mark Guzdial, I want to be him if I ever grow up, h...

Covid-19 is motivating schools all over the world to close. Many other schools are looking at options in case they have to close their facil...

I found this Tweet by Katerina Borodina @ctrlshifti that claimed that the 5 stages of grief apply perfectly to debugging code Denial ...

Another teacher reported on Facebook that they were going teach AP CS Principles and that this was the first time they are teaching computer...