PAUSD

Palo Alto Unified School District PK-12 Computer Science Curriculum Design

Advisory Committee PAUSD PK-12 CS CDAC, 2017-18

https://www.pausd.org/committees-task-forces/pk-12-computer-science-curriculum-design-advisory-committee

Meeting Info: Monday_Oct 30, 2017_; 4:15 pm –6:45 pm; Room SDC PAUSD District Office; 25 Churchill Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306

Agenda and Notes Meeting Attendants:

NAME Level Attended

Antink, Suz (PAUSD Staff) 3/Float Yes

Bramlett, Katie (Teacher) 1 Yes

Bumbacher, Engin (Adjunct Community Representative) 2 No

Chang, Eileen (Teacher) 2 Yes

Chen, Janice (Assistant Principal) 3 No

Ferrante, Marissa (Teacher) 2 Yes

Friebel, Will (Teacher) 3 Yes

Gantley, Amanda (Teacher) 1 Yes

Garrison, Emily (PAUSD Staff) 1/Float Yes

Gilbert, Teri (Teacher) 2 Yes

Grover, Shuchi (Community Representative) 2 Yes

Guibas, John (High School Student) 3 Yes

Hexsel, Jess (Teacher) 3 Yes

Hickey, Lisa (Principal) 2 Yes

Jacoubowsky, Tom (Principal) 1 Yes

Jou, Shirley (Teacher) 1 No

Kandell, Jaqui (Teacher) 2 Yes

Kellison, Tricia (Community Representative) 2/3 No

Kolhatkar, Smita (Community Representative) 1 Yes

Kuszmaul, Chris (Teacher) 3 Yes

PAUSD

PK-12

Computer Science

Curriculum Design

Advisory

Committee

Li, Nina (Middle School Student) 2 Yes

McManus-Coburn, Colleen (Teacher) 1 No

Mobin, Arjan (High School Student) 3 No

Narayan, Avanika (Adjunct Community Representative) 3 No

Ng, Erica (Teacher) 2 No

Ofek, Sharon (PAUSD Staff) 2/Float Yes

Paley, Josh (Teacher) 3 No

Parulekar, Mallika (High School Student) 3 Yes

Pierce, Sarah (Teacher) 2 Yes

Pound, Sue (Teacher) 2 Yes

Proctor, Chris (Adjunct Community Representative) 3 No

Rayner, Max (Parent) 2 No

Rosenblatt, David (Teacher) 2 Yes

Secor, Torin (Middle School Student) 2 Yes

Selwyn, Robbie (High School Student) 3 No

Stoneburner, Cara (Parent) 3 Yes

Vroemen, Max (Middle School Student) 2 No

Werbrouck, Paolo (Parent) 2 No

Willis, Maureen (Teacher) 2 Yes

Invitees: Elementary Tech Leads Special Guests:

Elem Tech Lead Level Attended

Lee Mitchell 1 No

Amanda Redmond 1 No

Heather Cleland 1 No

Lanette Konrad 1 No

Kim Hanley 1 No

Julie Griffin 1 No

Matthew Keith 1 No

Judy Peng 1 No

Kyle Jantzi 1 No

Sindhu Natarajan 1 No

Richard Garcia 1 No

Valerie Sabbag 1 No

Kristi Van 1 No

Brian Hubbs 1 No

Jen Alfonso-Punzalan 1 No

Elsa Chen 1 No

Leslie Huey 1 No

Sarah Patanroi 1 No

Megan Cox 1 No

Claire Albert 1 No

Jenn Aza Allan 1 No

Laura Hull 1 No

The Innovation Center Denmark, under the auspices of

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and

the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Higher Education;

Denmark Name

Position Attended

Emil Zink Tronche, Innovation & Research

Associate

Yes

Jeppe Dørup Olsen, Science Attache ̕

Yes

Committee Norms

1. Begin and end on time. 2. Assume that all of us have the best interests of students at the center of our work.

Recognize that we are dealing with competing values: inclusion—transparency (show what we did and how we did it)—discretion—urgency & efficiency

3. Seek to understand. 4. Listen actively and participate in the meeting (inclusion); make room for others to

participate. [Watch your air time; hands are helpful—keep your remarks to 3 minutes.]

5. Disagree respectfully.

6. Avoid side conversations.

7. Maintain a healthy humor. Celebrate and laugh together.

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Light dinner is provided.

AGENDA—updated 10/30/17

Item # Timing Person Responsible

Topic Notes

1 4:15—4:25 Suz Facilitator

Welcome • Sign in

• Get Food

• Look through agenda

• Introductions

• Welcome: our Guests from Denmark: Emil and Jeppe and our Elementary Tech Leads

2 4:25—4:45 Smita, Cara, & Suz Report & discuss

CDE CS Standards Mtg—Sac, Oct 23-24

Report—handout—draft of standards

• Next meeting is Nov 13/14

• Column for 9-12 shows changes from previous meeting—shows cross-outs etc.. moving from specific to more general concepts

3 4:45—4:55 Jess, Smita, Cara, Josh & Suz (and any other attendees from our committee) Report & discuss

CS K-12 SCCOE Kick-off Event—Santa Clara, Oct 26

Report

• Obama said CS for All…

• SCCOE—hired Casey … started CSinSV—7 districts—

• Big picture—

• Details of implementation—

• Location of the Mtg was US Patent office—and they run STEAM workshops.

4 4:55 – 5:05 Suz & Emily Report

John Guibas infographic

Tech Week Input to the CS CDAC Infographic

Report

• No input from Elementary or MS teachers— Discussion—suggestions….

• Agreed that the document was excellent

• Some minor tweaks and corrections

• Discussion of a variety of audiences—HS parents, MS parents and teachers, Elementary parents and teachers

• Make it interactive on the PAUSD website

• Review at the next meeting since few of the HS representatives were present at this meeting.

5 5:05—5:15 Suz & Sharon Information

PiE Grant • When Sharon and I met with PiE leadership over the summer, our plan was to create a pilot project and apply for our Teacher Grants (now called PiE Innovation Grants). (Applications open in December.)

• We would need to identify the sites, the program, the materials, etc.

•

6 5:15—5:45 Suz Facilitated discussion

CS Graduation Req’t • Information: o See attached handout

• Discussion o Questions: o Offered in the summer? o Could students take it in CC? o How do you fit it all in? o Pair with CSP? o The more details that we give the BOE,

the easier it will be for the members to decide.

o How will we determine if the student has met the requirement?

o CS for non-majors? Baseline computing that everyone should understand. CS 105 at Stanford, for example.

o Exposure to all students… might find an interest in it if they were exposed to it.

o Depth needs to be not too shallow… o Students could satisfy this requirement to

CS in a variety of ways—offer options. o Could be required for all Freshmen…

They’re early enough to CS that they would have time to take more coursework in CS. (Note: Most courses are a year-long course—Freshmen take 6 core courses…)

o The core of the student body in CS (about 25%) would prefer to take a more advanced course…

o Poll students about taking the 5 credits from Social Studies?

o Of the 25 extra credits required of students, where (departments) are they taking them?—could be math/science

o Reservations: o Students have a lot of req’ts already o 15 credits vs. 10 credits—15 credits and 5

credits must be CS; vs. 10 credits and 5 credits must be CS

o Enrollment effects… o How many are currently taking a CS

course? o Electives—more well-rounded; social-

emotional security—fewer electives o If we take 5 away from Social Studies, we

are no longer taking away from our students 25 credits of student choice.

o Get everyone’s opinions/feelings o Google form— o Padlet?

o Polleverywhere.com? o From the students o MS students: Grad req’ts—I would

probably just take it anyway—b’c they’re on this committee…

o HS students: Don’t like the word “req’t”; not such a problem with VAPA, etc., we want to more on that side, not Living Skills side… I don’t think it would be much of a practical problem—take it over the summer, or just take it one semester senior year—and just get it done. A lot of people take living skills thinking it isn’t good, but it’s really a fun class. In terms of the CTE situation, what if we take 5 out of Social Studies and put 10 in CTE? Even with 35 credits in Social Studies we’d still be more than both other req’ts.

o

• Decision? o Poll everyone on the committee about

their feelings about this topic--

7 5:45

—6:30

Elementary Group (Team Drive Doc address) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U3NB-eI6RCH7FsnCp-Dbus0Z3JX3zvLLukY4o8NIMQY/edit

Middle School Group (Team Drive Doc address) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ABJ5qZdAmT9LfS2LqxB8dKQdxV0l-ZAMpYI4thNRjMI/edit

High School Group (Team Drive Doc address) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FSTp9MgOscjXJvugSG70lg5Y9xrYqTfrOc3lqTEL1G0/edit

Suz Suggestions for tasks:

• Identify the elementary schools and grade levels in which we can pilot some ideas.

• Create a roll-out of the CS implementation. See below, according to matching color.

• What will we want to implement using a PiE Innovation Grant?

Suz Suggestions for tasks:

• Is a Wheel course part of the solution to CS for All? Decision? If positive, then create the PAUSD CS Wheel course for 2018-19. (See guiding questions below, according to matching color.)

• Do we need a PiE Innovation Grant for support?

Suz Suggestions for tasks:

• Design the PAUSD Pk-12 CS Information Night. (See d-school design help below—easy to find according to matching color.)

o Best timing for this event?

• Design the minimal HS CS Course—

o 1 or 2 Semesters? o Joy and Beauty of

computing revision? Or CS Principles?

• Do we need a PiE Innovation Grant to hold the informational meeting or to implement a minimal HS Course?

8 6:30—6:45 Suz Facilitator

Round Robin Elementary School

• Toyed with the idea of a suggested roll-out, not a pilot—there is no one curriculum that we could choose (and robots cost a lot of money).

• We thought about standards and concepts that would be appropriate at different levels—e.g., some are already taught: cyber security are already taught by the librarians, but things like loops, sequencing and events in grades 3-5 and modularity (unplugged) in K-2.

• Maybe having Stanford students in the classrooms to help troubleshoot and help with content.

• We want to pilot a specific product and we don’t want to endorse a product prematurely.

• For next time: maybe we could reach out to teachers about if they would be open to pilot (list); and what they might be signing up for… ; Suz: clarify with Sharon about next steps!

Middle School

• Talked a lot about what is going on in the different Wheel courses—5 weeks of wheel. A lot is already CS or CS-applications—lots of activities

• During 6th grade “core” –a different period for every school—a population is pulled out—it would have to be somewhat restructured—(Read 180, World Language, SpEd, etc… would be impacted who pull out students)—didn’t talk about the structure—we would have to make agreements. For ALL students—

• Sixth grade teachers may be open to teaching CS

• Grants: Cue robots—iPads… would like one device/2 students (one bot and one iPad).

• After Wheel—some math and science courses might have opportunity to revisit through integration—teachers might need training.

• Next steps: identify ideas for the PiE grants; in the Wheel courses—share what is taught and for how long (weekly pacing: looking for commonalities)—exploring whether or not we could have all the wheel courses and what’s important (which skills and what could be infused with CS)…; maybe blend with CDE CS Standards. (CDE 11/14 and 11/15)

High School

• Tough spot—so few people in the group today

• Played with the work done last session: describing what the req’t course might look like. Make it a semester course—make it a logic-based course, very fun and accessible, very low math, make it as graphical as possible, project-based type thing.

• Next Steps: How much data are we allowed to have access to—give us the data, what are they taking once they’ve surpassed the credit requirements? If they are currently not taking CS—what is the impact? Raw data…; Continue discussion about the specific content of the req’t course?; more time in the meeting to do this week.

The following work documents were revised and completed online. Elementary School: Group Work

• Suggest a roll-out of CS in the Elementary Levels: o Pre-Pilot Investigations for S2, 2017-18

PROGRAM OF INTEREST GRADE LEVEL TARGET SCHOOL ASSOCIATED TEACHER

E.g.: Dash and Dot E.g: 5 E.g.: Addison E.g.: Katie Bramlett

▪ o Plan a Pilot for 2018-19

▪ Constraints/Targets

• Choose schools and grade levels so that we have representation from all four geographical areas.

WEST (W) NORTH (N) MIDTOWN & SOUTH (MS)

Briones Barron Park Escondido

Nixon

Addison Duveneck

Hays Ohlone

El Carmelo Fairmeadow

Greendell Hoover

Greendell

• Must have a teacher willing to either host or lead CS.

• Have representation from all PK—5 grade levels. ▪ The Plan Outline

GRADE LEVEL SCHOOL TEACHER DATES

PK W: W: W:

N: N: N:

MS: MS: MS:

K W: W: W:

N: N: N:

MS: MS: MS:

GRADE LEVEL SCHOOL TEACHER DATES

1 W: W: W:

N: N: N:

MS: MS: MS:

2 W: W: W:

N: N: N:

MS: MS: MS:

GRADE LEVEL SCHOOL TEACHER DATES

3 W: W: W:

N: N: N:

MS: MS: MS:

4 W: W: W:

N: N: N:

MS: MS: MS:

5 W: W: W:

N: N: N:

MS: MS: MS:

o What needs to be in place for the 2018-19 pilot?

• Leadership?

• Supportive Organization?

• Oversight and Reflection mechanism?

End of Elementary School Group Work MS: Group Work

• Design the optimum 6th Grade CS Wheel Course o Goals: Fun and Challenging CS Short Course—four to six weeks--flexible

▪ The course should be energizing, exciting, empowering, inspiring, motivating, encouraging/inviting, and electrifying!

o Topics: ALGORITHMS AND

PROGRAMMING COMPUTING SYSTEMS DATA AND ANALYSIS IMPACTS OF COMPUTING NETWORKS AND THE

INTERNET

o Algorithms o Variables o Control o Modularity o Program

Development

o Devices o Hardware &

Software o Troubleshooting

o Storage Collection o Visualization &

Transformation o Inference & Models

o Culture o Social Interactions o Safety, Law &

Ethics

o Cybersecurity o Network

Communication & Organization

o Storage

o Underlying Practices: Inclusion

Fostering an

inclusive computing

culture

Collaborative

Collaborating around

computing.

Computational Problems

Recognizing and

defining computational

problems.

Abstraction

Developing and using

abstractions.

Creating

Creating computational

artifacts.

Testing

Testing and refining

computational artifacts.

Communicating

Communicating about computing.

o Objectives ▪ See CS Standards for grade 6 (or grades 6-8)

o Tools ▪ ? Block-based coding ▪ ? Text coding ▪ ? Robots ▪ ? 3-D printing ▪ ? Other applications

o Pre-Pilot Investigations for S2, 2017-18 ▪ (Please cite the Topics and Practices)

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6

▪ o Pilot course description for 2018-19

▪ End of MS Group Work HS: Group Work

1. At the Oct 9 meeting, you already noticed that there is a lack of information in the community among parents and others. You have suggested an information night. Use the following outline to clarify and define your intent and to plan the Information Night.

• Notice: You have noticed a lack of awareness in the PAUSD community about Computer Science for All

Students

• Why is this a problem? • What is the objective of making the PAUSD parent, student and larger community more aware?

• Your first solution: • Information Night(s)

• ?Who is The Audience(s)? • What are the needs of the identified audience? • What is the information that the audience needs? • Do you want to get information from the audience? If so, what type of

information do you need from the individuals? • What emotions do they have about this endeavor? • What experiences do they have that we should notice? • What fears do they have about bringing CS to all students? • What values do we need to include in our ideas?

• ?What will the event look like? (Think of the vowels, AEIOU… ) • Activities: What activities—how long will each take? • Environment: How will the info night be staged (large room, breakout rooms,

etc.)? How long will the info night be? • Interactions: How will you engage your attendees? How will you include

individual attention to each attendee? • Objects: Will there be handouts, or other materials that attendees will take with

them? What objects do we need to have in order to put on the info night? • Users: How do you expect the attendees to use this information?

• Reflect • Does this plan meet your objectives? How does it do so, where is there a gap? • How do you expect the attendees to feel at the end of the event?

• What are some of the other solutions? Brainstorm!

• Note: Brainstorm: • Generate as many ideas as possible… • Subdivide into groups of 3 or more, choose one of the solutions and answer the

following: • Audience? • AEIOU? • Reflect!

2. Course Description of the Minimal HS CS Course

Course Name •

Number of Semesters •

Pre-requisites (math level?) •

Course topics description •

Course experience description (I.e., what will the students experience?)

•

Course outcomes •

HW expectations •

•

End of HS Group Work

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Next Meeting: Monday, __Nov 13_____, 4:15 pm to 6:45 pm; SDC (@ the District Office)

Light Dinner is provided Tentative Agenda:

1. CS Graduation Req’t: Create a poll for the committee members to voice their feelings and suggestions to the committee—bring the results to the Nov 13 meeting.

2. Work time for each subgroup. Meeting Schedule:

Semester 1 Semester 2

Aug 28 Sept 18 Oct 2 Oct 9 Oct 30 Nov 13 Nov 27 Dec 4

Jan 29 Feb 12 Mar 26 Apr 9 Apr 16 Apr 30 May 14 Tentative BOE Meetings Informational: May 8 Approval: June 5