K-12 CS Summit: Equitable & Effective CS Education

Equitable and Effective K-12 CS Education: Challenges, Opportunities, and New Directions
This session will help orient teachers, administrators, and policymakers to the current landscape of research in K-12 CS education. We will focus on the pressing issue of equity, and discuss both enduring challenges as well as encouraging signs of progress towards providing more equitable and transformative CS education for all learners. We will ground our discussion in specific lessons drawn from our work in California and Illinois about challenges as well as successes related to student access and participation, CS teacher quality, curriculum and knowledge, and school accountability. We’ll also provide concrete resources for stakeholders looking to expand CS in their own K-12 and out of school spaces.
      
Moderator:  Colleen Lewis – Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign
Speakers:
Paul Bruno – Assistant Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, College of Education, University of Illinois Urbana – Champaign
Leigh Ann DeLyser – Co-Founder and Executive Director, CSforAll
Allison Scott – Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation, Kapor Center
Sepehr Vakil - Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern