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Kean CS Hub

www.keancshub.com

Patricia Morreale, PI

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NJ DOE funded hubs in April 2021�Envisioned as a 17 month grant (4/1/21-8/31/22)

NJ DOE

FDU

Kean

Rutgers

NGO 21-CZ05-G07

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Multi-pronged effort

	Workshops	Praxis CS Exam	Lending Library
K-2	x		x	Bee Bots, Let’s Go Code!, cyber.org
3-5	x		x	Scratch, Scratch Jr, cyber.org
6-8	x	x	x	Cyber.org, micro:bits
9-12	x	x		Micro:bits, robots, cyber.org
School Counselors	x			Academic year workshop series
Administrators	x			School visits, Professional Learning
In-service Experts				Expert CS lessons; Advisory Board
Pre-service Teachers	x		x	Cohort community, awareness
Community Engagement	x		x	GwC, Teacher Enrichment, NCWIT Aspirations Awards

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Praxis CS Exam Prep

Offered to all teachers, popular with 9-12 educators
Two approaches: self-study or study as part of a cohort group
Both approaches popular.

Cohort 1: 2021
Cohort 2: 2022

Early Findings:

More Praxis CS Exam completers were ‘self-study’ in cohort 1.
Support and best practices shared in the group, community building.
Many current AP CS, AP CSP teachers passing, with coaching and study.

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School Counselors

Preliminary Results

Figure 1. Changes in advising practices

Preliminary Results

Figure 2. Gains in CS understanding

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Lending Library

Portable bins full of K-8 manipulatives
Teachers sign-up and borrow.
We provide lessons, but teachers are now making their own and contributing back to the library!
College of Education faculty and students also use in their classes.

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Community Engagement

Kean is a College Loop for Girls Who Code -> Community Partner

All grade bands available
Currently, this includes 7 clubs and 97 members.
Schools involved include

Cranford High School
Livingston High School
Rutherford High School
Sterling High School
Union High School
Burnett Middle School, Union, NJ
Mount Pleasant Elementary School, West Orange, NJ

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Expert K-8 Teachers --

Gathered for five meetings in Jan-March
Developed sample lessons, incorporating the new CS standards, posted on the CS4NJ website.
Suitable for use over sequential years or as stand-alone lessons.
Expert teachers are actively sharing expertise this spring and summer at K-8 CS standards events.
Exemplify the collaborative teamwork which the CS community values.

www.cs4nj.org

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What we’ve learned:

BeeBots at a Hillside, NJ elementary school, part of a Kean CS hub Lending Library bin being used by the classroom.

Workshops are popular with teachers that are already curious or engaged.

The K-12 community is very appreciative of these opportunities.

With Zoom, PD was easily accessible to the teachers.

The Lending Library is useful and teachers enjoyed receiving materials.

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NJ Computer Science Professional Learning Hubs

www.keancshub.com

Thank you!

Patricia Morreale

pmorreal@kean.edu