Proud daddy, blessed husband, grateful long-time HS #CompSci teacher, founder of https://t.co/N9DSz5oDVF, & an uncompromisingly optimistic fighter for #CSforAll.
Nov 6, 2022 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
A hypothesis on why #CSforAll remains so elusive in American K12 education (a thread):
“Career pathways” isn’t cutting it as rationale for broadening equitable participation in Comp Sci education across K12.
We need to reframe the need.
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The impact of computing innovations on society, economy, and culture - particularly in just the past 25 years - is undeniably immense.
Not one school, district, state, tribal, territorial, or federal education administrator or policymaker will deny this.
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Jul 1, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
**A THREAD ON IMPROVING TEACHER HIRING PRACTICES**
The hiring process has long been identified for school administrators as their single most critical job duty..
..but, en masse, hiring in education remains woefully antiquated.
Here’s a potential fix..
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1️⃣ Rid the hiring process *completely* of the overwhelmingly fixed mindset-rooted Q&A that plagues it.
There is **zero** research base to associate a teacher “thinking on their toes” in giving “the right” answers to questions on the fly, and their efficacy in the classroom.
