Thank you for watching the Computer Science For And By Teachers: An Integrative Toolkit for 3rd-5th Grade Classrooms (CSFAB-Teachers)!  We have just completed our first year of this three year Researcher-Practitioner Partnership (RPP) project.  The goal of CSFAB-Teachers is to develop and implement a toolkit of resources, including professional development, sample lesson plans, and an educator community, to support elementary teachers to integrate culturally relevant computer science across core content areas and increase awareness of their own cultural competence. The video features reflections of some of our amazing RPP members on the first year of our project.  We look forward to your feedback, questions, and discussion!

Thank You so much for watching the CSFAB video.  It has been a great year working together to learn, plan, create and develop lessons for this toolkit and to prepare the implementation of the same.  Being a part of this RPP has been nothing short of phenomenal.  I hope you enjoy this short excerpt of the great things we are doing within.

I enjoyed watching the video. I am very excited about the use of RPP in the elementary grades!

Love that this research is centered in schools with teachers designing along side researchers!

I enjoyed watching the video and how facilitators of the program noticed how students were given culturatlly relevant lessonsthrought the use of CS  to enhance understandings.

Looks like these sorts of lessons are both very engaging for students and deeply grounded in educators' expertise. 

Can you say a little more about what skills, competencies, and attitudes you see students developing through these lessons? How do you imagine students' trajectories being changed? 

What do you think are the challenges of doing an intervention like this at scale - across many schools, districts, or states? 

I would definitely agree that being clear about what culturally relevant teaching is and how the pedagogy can be effective for every student is very necessary.  Working on this project has helped me be more intentional with lesson creation and incorporating the CRT checklist.  Educators have to know the communities they service.  In the current climate, CRT is looked at in a negative light and that is a challenge.   

Great project and video! I'm wondering if you can share a bit more about the CRT checklist. I thought one of the presenters stated that the lessons were looking beyond using a traditional checklist when including CRT pedagogical practices. I may have to rewatch ; )

Although we call it a checklist it is more of a reflection area based on the 5 components of culturally relevant teaching.  There is a brief description of each and the teacher states where in the lesson it is incorporated.  All 5 components don't have to be addressed, however, we have found that in normal teaching practices we are addressing the 5 components. I hope that answered your question. ;)

This is really cool! Love that your incorporated a CRT framework with it! Would love to see how this looks in lessons. Thank you for this very important work! 

This is such interesting and important work. What impact are you seeing on student learning? I'd love to hear about culturally responsive examples that teachers use when teaching CS. 

My teaching partner has used Scratch in our classroom as well and I have seen the students light up and persevere through frustrations and challenges in order to successfully create the "game" they had envisioned.  I never thought of using Scratch as a way for students to create a presentation of sorts to exhibit their understanding.  Can you share some examples of the types of projects that some of the students created?

I love your checklist document. Looks so helpful! I was interested to hear it is more like a reflection guide. I can see that. Maybe a discussion guide, too? I will be interested to hear more about your project as you move forward!

In a time where coding is so much a factor in STEM career success, I think integrating it so early could be the key to making it accessible to all. Great implementation!