CS4HS@MUAdvocacy SessionMon. July 29, 2013

Heather Bort Joe Kmoch

Objectives1. Learn Together. Network with other K-12 CS advocate leaders

and have fun! Mentor and welcome new CS Advocates

2. Understand “Advocacy Space.” What are the levels/types of Advocacy and where do I fit?

3. Establish Personal Goals. What can I do? What do I want to do? Where do I want to be a year from now?

4. Develop and refine your advocacy values. Everyone should have an “elevator pitch” that articulates their beliefs and positions on CS education.

5. Build regional teams. Can cohorts with like-minded goals be established so I’m not alone?

6. Build community resources. What can I/we contribute to a repository of resources to help others?

7. Develop short-, long-term goals. What should I have done within 30-, 60-, 90- days of this workshop

Teacher Advocacy Space

Where are you?

Teacher Advocacy Space

Discuss: Where do you want to be?

Teacher Advocacy Space

School Level Advocacy

Identify Stakeholderso Studentso Teacherso Administratorso Counselorso Parentso Board of Educationo Business partners

School Level Advocacy

Tools• Elevator Speech (1 to 20 minutes)

o CS as a tool for teaching problems solving and logical thinking (focus on all STEM careers)

• Powerpoint Presentation o Lots of data/charts about CS opportunities

• Brochure – CS@<your school>o courses, statistics, STEM alumni

• Enthusiastic Students

Where the STEM Jobs Will BeProjected Annual Growth of NEWLY CREATED STEM Job Openings 2010-2020

* STEM is defined here to include non-medical occupations.

Source: Jobs data are calculated from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Employment Projections 2010-2020, available at http://www.bls.gov/emp/.

Degrees and Jobs

Where the STEM Jobs Will BeProjected Growth of Selected STEM Jobs 2010-2020

STEM Job2010 Total

Employment% Growth2010-2020

2011 Average Annual Salary

Engineering and Architectural Managers 176,800 9% $129,350

Computer and Information Systems Managers 307,900 18% $125,660

Aerospace Engineers 81,000 5% $103,870

Software Developers, Systems and Applications 913,100 30% $96,250

Biochemists and Biophysicists 25,100 31% $87,640

Civil Engineers 262,800 19% $82,710

Database Administrators 110,800 31% $77,350

Environmental Scientists 89,400 19% $68,810

Chemists 82,200 4% $74,780

Anthropologists and Archeologists 6,100 21% $59,040

Sources: Jobs data are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Employment Projections 2010-2020, available at http://www.bls.gov/emp/. Salary data are from BLS Occupational Employment Statistics, May 2011, available at http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm. STEM is defined here to include non-medical occupations.

Success StoriesSchool Level Advocacy

Methods• Library Showcases (Presentations)

o Alumni and Current Students

• Guidance Counselor Presentationso During lunch in January

• Math Department Presentations• Board of Education Presentations• Applet Awards

o Students and Parents

Your Turn

• In your journal, identify• At least one problem or issue involving CS

you are dealing with• At least one success story you have

experienced

• After 3 minutes, share and compare•

The CSTA K–12 Computer Science Standards

as an Advocacy Tool

Standards Echo Fundamental Beliefs

We consider it critical that students be able to read and write and understand the fundamentals of math, biology, chemistry and physics. To be a well-educated citizen in today’s computing-intensive world, students must have a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of computing as well.

The standards represent the body of knowledge for the discipline as it applies to K-12.

The CSTA K-12 CS Standards

New Advocacy Tools

•Documents that show mapping between CSTA standards and•STEM Cluster Topics

•Common Core State Standards

•Partnership for 21st Century Skills: Essentials for Success

•Partnership for 21st Century Essential Skills

http://csta.acm.org/Curriculum/sub/K12Standards.html

•Alignment template docs•Template for aligning standards, courses, curricula

•Template for aligning resources

•How to use document

•Completed examples

http://csta.acm.org/Curriculum/sub/K12Standards.html

Using the Tools for Advocacy

•How do you use the tools now?

•How might you use them in future?

Elevator Advocacy

advocacy, protagonism - active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something

Elevator Advocacy

protagonism, drumbeat  - active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for

drumbeat  - a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause

Elevator Advocacy

vehement - showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense:vociferous - vehement or clamorousclamorous - noisily insistent

Elevator Advocacy

So I am going to beat my drums and be passionate and noisily insist that others join me in

support of computer science education.

Types of Pitch Formats

• Face-to-Face Pitch• Tube Pitch: youtube videos, vimeo, etc• Twit Pitch: twitter• Blog Pitch: popular blogs, your own blog• Slide Pitch: web based slide shows,

SlideShare, Prezi, Animoto

• Document/Letter Pitch: Email/Snail Mail item

PitchPlan

http://www.speech-topics-help.com/elevator-speech.html

Become a Drumbeater

Find your passion and pick up your drum1. Start to fill in you Advocacy Planning

Guide – identify at least one problem for I.A.

2. Define what you think might be a solution; fill in I.B.

3. Work for the next 10-15 mins on III.B. and then 4.

4. Hook them, reel them, and bring it all home.

Resource Sites

http://ExpandingCSWisconsin.pbworks.com

CSTA: http://csta.acm.orgNCWIT: http://ncwit.org

CS Ed Week: http://www.csedweek.org

Computing in the Corehttp://www.computinginthecore.org

Q&A???

Presenters:

Heather Bort heather.bort@marquette.edu

Joe Kmochjoe@jkmoch.com