COMMITMENT EXAMPLES
Northeast Washington ESD (NEWESD) will provide SCRIPT training for 9 Education Service Districts in the state of Washington facilitating implementation of CS education programs serving 200,000 students by June 2019.
Ithaca City School District will provide introductory CS training to 600 district teachers and administrators, create secondary level CS based courses, launch the CS lending library of curriculum, tools, and robots, meet with the 13 PTA to build community understanding of CS in schools, and host a districtwide CS event by the 2018-2019 school year.
Loudon County Public Schools is partnering with CodeVA and the Virginia Department of Education to establish an elementary CS Coaches program, create a K-12 Computer Science Blueprint for the district, participate in the development of state standards, and adopt K-12 CS standards for the district serving over 80,000 students.
Quicken Loans and Detroit Public Schools Community District are partnering to create and implement an innovative K-12 computer science blueprint. Through this strategic public-private partnership, the Detroit Public Schools Community District will integrate Computer Science curriculum to reach all elementary school students by 2021, starting with professional development for 3rd - 5th grade teachers and robotics coaches.
Dalraida Elementary School commits to providing 380 hours of CS instruction across all grades using the Alabama Mathematics, Science, and English Language Arts Courses of Study, as well as incorporating our district's CS scope and sequence as much as possible, covering 100% of state CS standards to 628 students in Montgomery, Alabama by Summer 2024.
Le Grand Elementary School commits to providing 105 hours of CS instruction across all grades using Code.org and Acellus to 345 students in Le Grand, California by Summer 2024.
ChickTech, in partnership with TechGirlz and Family Code Night, will engage and train 30 high school youth in 6 communities to teach technology workshops to 200 K-8 students using TechGirlz and Family Code Night Curriculum during the 2018-2019 school year.
Emerging Entrepreneurs, Inc., with the support of Wells Fargo and Infinite Scholars, will provide scholarships for 500 college-ready youth from across the US to enroll in EdX's online professional development courses, designed to prepare college-ready youth for careers in IT and tech-based fields. Additionally, the organization's Urban Leadership Lab for at-risk youth will partner with WG Pearson Elementary School and the Emily K. Center of Durham, NC to provide STEM, coding, and robotics education to over 800 new students, ages 5-13.
NCWIT AspireIT and the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Information Technology Policy Ready to Code initiative is launching a pilot program to design and implement 3-5 peer-led CS programs for K-12 girls at public libraries over spring vacation 2018.
Nextech and Teenworks will offer a week-long Explorers program focused on career exploration, advanced coding instruction, and design thinking for 320 Indianapolis students ages 14-18 in summer 2018.
CodeMonkey will introduce a narration feature by October 2018 that reads out loud lines of code written by students in order to help those who are visually impaired, have not yet learned to read, have dyslexia, read slowly, or are learning English.
Apple will create a free AP Computer Science Principles course that integrates Swift and app development. Pending approval by the College Board, the course syllabus and materials will be shared during the 2018-2019 academic year.
BrainPOP, in partnership with Scratch and Vidcode, will offer free access to their new Creative Coding feature to all CS educators from October to December 2018, allowing teachers to try out select projects for each of BrainPOP's subject areas, making it easy to integrate coding into their classrooms.
Kano will provide packs of Computer Kit devices to public housing communities through the ConnectHomeUSA initiative, providing 100s of low-income students access to broadband internet after school, as well as provide free curriculum to communities to empower young people with computer science.
Mastercard will partner with the Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri to host two summer workshops enabling up to 100 Girl Scouts ages 10-18 to participate in Mastercard's Signature Program - Girls4Tech, and learn about STEM careers throughout 2018.
RBC Capital Markets has set a goal to deliver 20,000 hours of free coding lessons to students ages 6-20 in 2018 through the Teaching Kids to Code initiative, a program in which technical employees provide coding lessons in collaboration with community organizations and schools.
Dell, through the Legacy of Good Youth Learning program, is partnering with CSforALL to offer five regional SCRIPT (School district CSforALL Resource and Implementation Planning Tool) Workshops in geographically and demographically diverse locations across the US, targeting 175,000 students in 346 schools by Summer 2018.
JPMorgan Chase, in collaboration with CSforALL, will host a SCRIPT Workshop for 6 Columbus, OH school districts impacting more than 47K students, 2K teachers, and over 70 schools by implementing quality CS education to all students K-12; participate in CSforALL’s September Knowledge Forum as a sponsor and panelist.
CS4RI is launching phase two of their initiative, and will hold a Summit in 2019 to engage 2,000 students as part of their continuous effort to ensure that all students have the opportunity to build 21st-century skills in computer science and computational thinking. Furthermore, they will utilize new metrics to gauge the health of CS education within the state.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will explore adding new inventor trading cards featuring inventors in computing fields. The USPTO has identified 3-5 inventors who have a background in computer science, have made a substantial contribution to technology, a patent portfolio, and are minority and/or women. Upon approval, the inventors' cards will be released to the public and offered at public events for all.
Arkansas Department of Education is launching a new program today, as part of Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s #CSforAR initiative, to drive student participation and achievement in rigorous computer science courses. Beginning with the 2017-18 school year, the state will recognize public high school students and their schools with substantial tiered monetary awards when they earn a qualifying score on the College Board Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science (CS) A exam.
CodeVA is partnering with the State of Virginia to launch the "Virginia is for Computer Science Lovers" campaign with the state tourism bureau, and to invest more than $360,000 in targeted teacher professional development in high-poverty rural areas, and in 2017-18 will partner with Family Code Night on a statewide campaign to engage parents as their children will soon be coming home with CS homework.
SageFox Consulting Group, in partnership with CSforALL and the National Science Foundation (NSF), will bring a second cohort of NSF-funded CSforALL Research-Practice Partnership projects into their community of funded partnerships (RPPforCS) to collectively develop a shared research agenda to facilitate the understanding of the efficacy of the RPP model for affecting CS/CT education.
SRI will disseminate the research findings that are emerging from twelve CS education assessment and evaluation projects, to better equip practitioners with evidence based approaches to teaching and learning CS by early 2020.
EDC in collaboration with the Research Alliance for NYC Schools and the University of FL will start a three-year research project to identify Effective Models for Integrating Computational Thinking into NYC Elementary Schools, and conduct case studies in five high-poverty elementary schools.