0 Surfacing Computer Science in STEM Education

Susan H. Rodger (Duke), Mark Stehlik (CMU), Leigh Ann Sudol (CMU), Chris Stephenson (CSTA), John White (ACM)

Computing in the Core
raise the national profile of cs education in K-12 and work toward its inclusion in the K-12 education landscape.
Partners - ACM, CSTA, CRA, NCWIT, ABI, Google, Microsoft, Intel

CS Education Week - www.csedweek.org (December 5-11, 2010)
- US House of Representatives passed a resolution (Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) and Jared Polis (D-CO).

CSTA's Leadership Cohort (Stephenson)
- We need to work bottom up and top down, if we want change.
- What is CS?
- Are there courses available to students?
- Who can teach computer science?
- Teachers are the true grass roots
- Leadership Cohort- 71 teacher leaders in 46 states dedicated to achieving sustained improvements to CS Ed
- Advocacy resources on the CSTA website
- Ensuring Exemplary Teacher (white paper) - csta.acm.org/Commincations/sub/Documents.html
- CSTA National Surveys- csta.acm.org/Research/sub/CSTAResearch.html

Standards Alignment (Sudol)
Standards "point towards a destination, and give us a road map of how to get there."
- The standards that define CS, are missing in the state standards.
- 27 states do not have a technology graduation requirement
- 34 states, CS is an elective
- Releasing a report at the end of summer.
- CS is mostly being taught as a series of skills and capabilities where computers and computer technology are emphasized.
- Little consistency between states