This post is my live blog from KCDC. For more, see the 2021 KCDC live blog TOC

Speaker: Allison Hartnett

Twitter: @dralllisonhart

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Stats

• 67% of new jobs in STEM are in computing
• Over 400K opening
• Only 47% of US schools teach CS
• Black students almost 3x less likely to take AP (advanced placemen CS Principles) than White or Asian students

TEALS

• Technology Education and Literacy in Schools
• Microsoft pays for this but volunteers from many companies
• Finds volunteers to pair teach for a year so a teacher can teach CS by themseves
• Both in person an remote instruction
• Four courses: Intro CS, AP CS Principles, AP CS A, CS Topics

Think about

• How give feedback and be encouraging

My take

This session has speech to text/captioning on the screen. It heard everyone in the room. Some more accurately than others. I knew the session was largely about TEALS. I was hoping there would be more general points as well. (I didn’t read the abstract carefully enough)

Ended with good call for volunteeers: aka.s/TEALSContact