State of CS Report

The 2021 State of Computer Science Education: Accelerating Action Through Advocacy is the annual report from Code.org, CSTA, and ECEP on K-12 computer science in the U.S. which includes policy trends, maps, state-by-state summaries, and implementation data.

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Join the Conversation on the CSTA Virtual Community

Connect with your fellow teachers and CS advocates on the new CSTA Virtual Community — available to all members!

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Teacher Landscape Report

The results are in! The Kapor Center and CSTA just published a full report and interactive dashboard featuring the results of a nationwide survey of nearly 3,700 PreK-12 computer science teachers in the U.S.

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New Standards Resources

CSTA recently published several teacher standards-aligned resources designed specifically for teachers, administrators, PD providers, schools of education, and policymakers.

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You're Not Alone

Become a part of a community by and for teachers and unlock access to the tools and resources to help take your teaching practice to the next level. At CSTA, we’re in this together.

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CS is Foundational

The CSTA standards outline the computer science content and practices that every student should learn over their K-12 experience.

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CSPDWeek2022 was a Huge Success!

This week has been such an awesome experience.

Just looking are all the happy faces on the CSPDWeek Website will prove that fun and learning was going on!

Check it out!

CSPDWeek Starts tomorrow with In-Person

Tomorrow is the big day! We will see you there!!!

Education Building Room 212 at The College of New Jersey,

2000 Pennington Road Ewing, NJ 08628-0718.

Park in the Education Building parking lot, Forcina Garage Lot 17. If that lot is filled, you may park in Lots 4-6, but that would be a much farther walk. Please note there isn’t any ticketing in the summer.

WE CAN"T WAIT TO SEE YOU THERE!

** Masks Optional

$2 million in Governors FY23 Budget for CS (AGAIN!!)

We are excited to announce that Governor Murphy has included another $2 million in the Fiscal Year 2023 NJ State Budget for Computer Science. If approved, this brings the total grants for Computer Science education under Governor Murphy to $6.8 million.

Here is the wording from page 188:

The amount hereinabove appropriated for the K--12 Computer Science Education Initiative shall be used exclusively to support approved applications for the expansion and support of professional development of K--12 computer science teachers, and for advanced computer science course offerings as determined by the Commissioner of Education based on a district’s demonstration of its readiness to implement such a program, subject to the approval of the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting

This must pass the legislature before being reaching the Governor's desk for signature.

If you would like to testify at the legislative hearing (written or verbal) use this link to register. The hearings will be virtual.

Please let me know if you have any questions

Excited about the continued success the CS community in NJ has had. We are positively impacting the lives of students.

When you click on the link and read the instructions there are other ways to participate if you cannot testify in person!

In order to accommodate as many witnesses as possible, some variations in the time schedule may be required. Those persons scheduled to participate during a session are asked to log into the session within the hour prior to the start of the session, to guarantee participation.
Oral testimony will be limited to three minutes.
In order to facilitate the operation of the hearings, those persons wishing to present written testimony are asked to submit the document in advance to SBABudgetHearings@njleg.org.
Written testimony should include the name of the person(s) speaking, organization name, address, phone and fax number and email address. Written testimony submitted to the committee will be made public on the Internet and become part of the permanent record. Personal contact information will not be made public.
In the event you cannot appear to testify, you may email: SBABudgetHearings@njleg.org. or mail your testimony to the Legislative Budget and Finance Office, State House Annex, P.O. Box 068, Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0068.
You will be allowed to testify at one Senate public hearing. Those participants from statewide or national organizations with multiple chapters, offices, locations, etc., should consolidate their efforts and select one person to represent the organization."

CSTA New Jersey #1 in Active Memberships!

CSTA New Jersey Steering Committee has been successful in reaching membership goals!

We just received the following message from CSTA Chapter Relations Manager Jason Bohrer.

Greetings CSTA New Jersey Chapter Leaders,

I just wanted to share that CSTA New Jersey is the first CSTA chapter to hit 300 active CSTA chapter members!

Congratulations!
~ Jason

New goal = 400 members!!!

Computer Science Education is good for our students and good for our state,

thanks to the work of good Computer Science teachers!!!!

Governors: Support CS

Hi all,

Just had a conversation with Code.org. Excited to share that New Jersey has the 5th highest participation rate of any state on the number of CS emails to the Governor.

Those states ahead of us started 2 days ago, we started 4 hours ago!! NJ Rocks!

Thanks and keep it going. Have your family members send an email. Here is the link. (takes 2 minutes at most)

Feel free to share the original email with other stakeholders.

Governor Murphy is the vice-chair of the National Governor's Association (NGA) and will be the chair next year. He is working with Arkansas's Governor Hutchinson, who is the current chair of NGA. Here are a few exciting pieces of information and a way you can help.

National Governors Association - CS Ed Initiative

Governor Hutchinson has made Computer Science Education his chairman's initiative this year. Here is a 2022 NGA Plenary on Computer Science Education. The first 15 minutes is a great speech by Governor Hutchinson (worth watching) followed by a panel discussion with CEOs.

Meet the Press

Governor Murphy and Governor Hutchinson were both on Meet the Press to discuss bipartisan efforts. They both mentioned Computer Science Education. You can find it here around 1:30

GovsForCS

We are excited that Governor Murphy is also one of the 14 members of Governors for CS. Thanks to Code.org for leading this effort.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

As Governor Murphy holds the role of vice-chair and future chair of the National Governors Association, we would like to thank him for all his support and encourage him to use this platform to continue to promote Computer Science Education.

Please take a minute to use this link to send Governor Murphy an email supporting the NGA Computer Science Education initiative.

Thanks for supporting CSforAll. We are positively impacting the lives of our students.

Daryl

NJDOE CS Email and Standards Website Update

2022 is a big year for Computer Science in NJ, with the implementation of the NJ CS Standards in September. All one million K-8 students will be required to learn CS and all high schools will be required to offer CS.

Mayra Bachrach is the NJDOE Computer Science Coordinator and a great resource. If you have questions about computer science education or the implementation of the CS standards, you can send emails to ComputerScience@doe.nj.gov

The NJDOE standards department recently up their Computer Science website with some resources, links and definitions.

Here is the link - https://www.nj.gov/education/standards/compsci/Index.shtml

We look forward to continues collaboration with NJDOE as we implement the NJ Computer Science Action Plan to ensure all students have access to equitable and quality computer science education.

Stay well

Daryl

The CS4NJ Coalition was recently awarded a $56,000 grant from Google.org

Exciting news!!!!!

The CS4NJ Coalition was recently awarded a $56,000 grant from Google.org to support New Jersey’s Computer Science State plan by helping prepare teachers to implement CSforALL in K-12 schools across New Jersey. The New Jersey Department of Education and the Governor’s Computer Science Advisory Board created the NJ Computer Science State Plan in 2019 to outline steps to implement quality and equitable computer science education for all students in New Jersey.

"We know that providing students access to quality STEM education starts with equipping teachers and educators with the right training and tools," said Sarah Henderson, Google's Senior Manager for Tech Education NYC. "Google is proud to be supporting the CS4NJ Coalition in helping teachers implement Governor Murphy's NJ Computer Science State Plan."

“We are very fortunate to have Google as a member in the CS4NJ Coalition to help in our efforts ensure all students have access to quality and equitable Computer Science education,” said CS4NJ Director Daryl Detrick. “We appreciate their generous support to help make sure teachers are ready to implement the NJ CS Standards.”

Link to the full press release

Website: http://www.cs4nj.org/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cs4nj
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cs4nj

FREE CSEdWeek Webinar Recording & Slides with links

FREE CSEdWeek Webinar

October 28, 2021 Recording & Slides

We had a successful CSEdWeek Webinar last week with some amazing resources and ideas shared by award winning NJ teachers.

Thank you to Shirley from NJSPN for hosting, as well as Paige, Samantha, Regina and Kim for presenting. And lastly, thanks for all who were able to attend. These teachers shared their success and ideas on how you can participate this year.