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Engagement on the front lines: The roles of teachers

September 24, 2019

Welcome!

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As folks are joining the call, let’s chat. How has your summer been?

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Agenda

• (0:05) Welcome!
• (0:17) Discussing the Theme Study on Teacher Roles
• (0:35) Jennifer Rosato, Chair of the Board of CSTA
• (0:40) Breakout!: What are your biggest wins in engaging teachers so far? What have you learned from overcoming obstacles with teachers?

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Theme Study: Engagement on the front lines

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https://www.csforall.org/projects_and_programs/rppforcs-theme-study-teachers/

Theme Study: Engagement on the front lines

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1. Teachers occupy a central place in the critical feedback loop of an RPP project, providing expertise in computer science pedagogies as well as larger project interventions which are iteratively developed to address the specific student populations the teachers serve.

Three emerging themes in teacher engagement in CS RPP projects:

Theme Study: Engagement on the front lines

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Three emerging themes in teacher engagement in CS RPP projects:

2. Teachers find it difficult to expend effort until a project can pay them for that effort. Projects therefore accept the reality that teachers have a limited ability to participate in the earliest formative activities of an emerging research-practice partnership–namely proposal writing.

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Three emerging themes in teacher engagement in CS RPP projects:

• The goal of teacher engagement in the research-practice partnership is not to transform a teacher into a researcher–the goal is to foster and grow teacher leaders that participate in research in a variety of ways. As such, the more successful RPPforCS projects who experienced robust and sustained teacher involvement created specific scaffolds to make participation in grant activities (such as webinars, conference presentations, and data collection) meaningful to teachers– getting the greatest possible value of the teacher’s voice and expertise.

Theme Study: Engagement on the front lines

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• Project design/grant prep
• Start-up - team formation and implementation strategy
• Initial activity design
• Initial activities - often Professional Development
• Feedback from Professional Development (singularly or as a Professional Learning Community)
• Feedback from the classroom (singularly or as a Professional Learning Community)
• Engagement in research design
• Data collectors
• Data interpreters
• Sense-makers
• Re-design
• Dissemination

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When teachers are tasked with a major grant deliverable, a higher level of project management attention will necessarily be required to scaffold and shepherd the deliverable into completion.

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Coordinating the meaningful involvement in grant activities, beyond the participant experience, of large numbers of teachers is a heavy managerial lift. Projects that had the benefit of a project or program manager or coordinator benefited from the additional management capacity, while projects that had no such staff member had PI’s that were challenged by meeting the coordination demand on top of their other grant and professional activities.

csteachers.org/chapters

• Join one of our 78 CSTA chapters, covering 44 states, Puerto Rico, and two provinces
• If you’re from one of the few states without a chapter, let’s get one started this year!

Submit a proposal at csteachers.org/conference

csteachers.org/standards

CSTA / ISTE Standards for CS Educators

Provide Feedback at: csteachers.org/EducatorStandards

1. CS Knowledge & Skills
2. CS Equity and Inclusion
3. Professional Growth and Identity
4. Instructional Design for CS
5. CS Classroom Practice

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Join at csteachers.org/cshs

CS Teachers as Leaders

• Leader of CSTA chapters
• Advocate for policy change
• Champion for equity in the CS classroom�csteachers.org/equity
• Facilitator of professional development
• Coach/mentor to other CS teachers
• Researcher on CS education projects

Teacher Insights

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• Survey development
• Framing messages for K12 audiences
• Recruiting teachers and students
• Keep students at the forefront of discussions and decisions

Breakout!

In your breakout rooms, talk about

• Some of your biggest success stories or wins that you’ve had in working with teachers during your RPP
• If you’ve learned something new in working through challenges when working with teachers, what did you learn?
• Are there any superstar teachers that have really distinguished themselves in your RPP so far?

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Key Events

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• CSforALL Summit: October 21-23, Utah
• RPPforCS Meetup: March 10-11, Portland OR
• Start with late afternoon meet-ups on Tuesday

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Other opportunities to engage

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• Propose a pre-RESPECT workshop: http://bit.ly/WorkshopRFP2019
• Join a Theme Team!
• Attend our regularly scheduled webinars
• Next Webinar: October 15, RPP Fundamentals-Supporting Your Practice Partners in Achieving Their Goals

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