Grade level: 3 - 8th grade
Skill level: All levels welcome
Required Technology: Laptop

Join this 4-day, hands-on BootUp PD regional workshop and learn how to bring coding to life using Scratch, micro:bits, and charge. Sponsored by WeTeach_CS, this 28-hour experience is designed for elementary educators and will help teachers integrate computer science and computational thinking into real classroom instruction—through creativity, problem solving, and student-driven projects. Built on BootUp PD’s proven, collaborative learning model, teachers learn with and from one another while designing lessons they can use immediately. What teachers receive:

• $500 stipend upon completion
• Classroom set of 30 micro:bits + charge
• Breakfast and lunch provided daily
• 28 hours of hands-on BootUp PD training
• Access to the BootUp Texas Professional Learning Community (PLC)

During this BootUp PD workshop, educators will: Experience model lessons using Scratch from a student perspective Collaboratively design and refine lessons for the upcoming school year Connect coding to core instruction using TEKS, CSTA, and the K–12 CS Framework Participate in applied learning that builds creativity, critical thinking, and student agency BootUp PD’s facilitation emphasizes modeling, coaching, and collaboration—not sit-and-get training—empowering teachers to guide students in creating projects across art, music, animation, games, and storytelling. Participants also gain access to BootUp’s free library of nearly 140 classroom-ready projects and strategies for finding and adapting additional resources.