Will x Izzy | Notion

Works at Mouse
“We need to give them tests”
“It needs to be standardized”
Mouse: technology education nonprofit training
- Trained Will to be a CS teacher
- “Exploring CS curriculum”
  - Designed to be accessible
  - Not testing
  - Project based
- Design league programming: “Design with a purpose curriculum”
  - Human-centered design for apps
  - No “hard-computing”
- Will: give exposure to coding
- New CS standards in CS states
  - Use by 2024
  - PD on teaching teachers what are these teachers
  - General education teachers K-8, teach them standards
    - Not too much coding in there
  - Dif coding languages in dif environments…
  - Teach them ways to introduce the concepts
  - Integrating into math, ELA, social studies projects
- Regional code.org partner
- “This is great but it’s not for me”
  - “I don’t have the time or space to cover this”
  - TESTS STAND IN THE WAY OF LEARNING!!!
  - “If you integrate it….it will have a much larger impact on the kids…”
  - “It’s always worked well for me the way that I have done it”
INDUSTRIAL WORKFORCE
- We always have calculators
- Shifting from remembering….how do we actually think….
GET INTO THE SYSTEM
BECOME A DECISION MAKER AT THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
- Least attainable
Get involved in informal education spaces to provide support that schools are not able to give
Working with other teachers
Showing them value,,,computer science is not scary