EAGER: CSforAll:Engaging Districts to Plan, Implement and Assess Scalable Models for CSforAll

马萨诸塞州大学将与斯普林菲尔德和霍利奥克马萨诸塞州公立学校的地区和学校管理人员和教师合作，开发基于研究的规划，设计和实施过程，这将有助于在所有年级引入计算思维，并为所有学生提供计算机科学课程和内容。作为围绕全民计算机科学倡议所做努力的一部分，这项工作将协助两个学区制定全面的计划，使所有公立高中都能开设计算机课程，让学生在小学和中学获得计算机科学学习机会，并确保所有学生，包括女孩和代表性不足的少数民族都能获得计算机科学。这个项目的目标是创建一个过程，这将导致有效的区级CS为所有的战略，通过研究和评估，将作为其他马萨诸塞州地区的模式，并提供一个全国采用的路线图通知。每个地区在马萨诸塞州面临的挑战：了解新的国家数字扫盲/计算机科学标准的期望，在等级带定义战略;选择，开发和实施课程;解决教师和学生的问题;并了解行政和结构问题。最近课程、工具和专业发展选择的激增，以及沿着越来越多的竞争提供者，加剧了这些挑战。这些选择中的许多都没有充分的教育研究基础，增加了制定示范区战略的复杂性，可以为全州的战略规划提供信息。这项拟议的活动开始了两个模型规划过程，通过研究和最佳实践，为马萨诸塞州的霍利奥克和斯普林菲尔德地区创建CSforAll计划。这项工作将整合研究和实践社区，以创建网络化的改进社区，其中包括地区和学校管理人员和教师，州和地方计算教育计划的成员，专业发展提供者，州教育当局的代表，学生，家长，以及一个由计算机科学和STEM教育专业人员以及教育和社会科学研究人员组成的强大团队，以评估各种选择，并开始设计战略，最适合地区的优先事项和限制。它将确保这些过程包括评估，并通过重要的研究问题，需要解决的设计，实施和发展的模式的一部分。

The University of Massachusetts will collaborate with district and school administrators and teachers in the Springfield and Holyoke Massachusetts public schools to develop research-based planning, design and implementation processes that will facilitate introducing computational thinking across all grade levels and provide computer science curricula and content to all students. As part of the efforts around the CS for All Initiative, this work will assist two school districts in developing comprehensive plans to make computing curricula available across all public high schools, get students involved in CS learning opportunities in elementary and middle schools, and ensure access for all students, including girls and underrepresented minorities. The goal of this proposed project is to create processes that will lead to effective district-level CS for All strategies, informed by research and evaluation that will serve as models for other Massachusetts districts and provide a roadmap for national adoption.Each district in Massachusetts faces challenges: understanding the expectations of the new state Digital Literacy/Computer Science standards; defining strategies at grade bands; selecting, developing, and implementing curricula; addressing teacher and student issues; and understanding administrative and structural issues. These challenges are exacerbated by the recent proliferation of curricula, tools, and professional development options, along with a growing number of competing providers. Many of these options are not sufficiently grounded in educational research, adding to the complexity of developing model district strategies that can inform statewide strategic planning. This proposed activity begins two model planning processes, informed by research and best practices, for creating CSforAll plans for Holyoke and Springfield districts in Massachusetts. The effort will integrate research and practice communities to create networked improvement communities that include district and school administrators and teachers, members of state and local computing education initiatives, professional development providers, representatives from state education authorities, students, parents, and a strong team of CS and STEM education professionals and education and social science researchers to assess options and to begin to design strategies that best fit district priorities and constraints. It will insure these processes include evaluation and are informed by the important research questions that need to be addressed as part of the design, implementation and evolution of the models.