Registration for RESPECT is now open!

Reflecting the higher costs of the conference this year, RPPforCS is boosting the reimbursement amount for the Community Meetup to $450 per person (up to 2 people per project.) 

Note: This does not change the available $150 for attending a pre-RESPECT workshop on March 10. 

Pre-RESPECT Workshop Update:
For those of you who signed-up to attend one of the four workshops taking place on March 10, please plan to attend your first choice offering. Stacey recently sent out an email to all who pre-registered. Questions? Email ssexton@sagefoxgroup.com

For everyone else, it’s not too late! You can still register for a workshop by filling out this form.

Here’s an INFO SHEET containing the workshop descriptions as well as their expected start and end times.

RPPforCS Community Meetup:
For those of you not planning to attend a workshop but are planning to attend the community meetup on March 11, 2020, please complete this form. This meetup is co-located with the RESPECT conference, which requires a separate registration.

Registration for SIGCSE is now open!
 

We've heard that you are looking to connect with one another to swap experiences and instruments, and to develop our collective capacity to evaluate computer science projects using an RPP modality. Here's a forum to do just that.

RPPforCS is looking to bring together project evaluators for a virtual meetup on February 4 from 12:00 - 1:30 PM

We have been involved in evaluator communities prior to this, including with many of you and we look forward to the chance to (re)connect. We see the potential for rich shared learning from a group like this and we want to get a sense of who would be interested in doing that work. 

To get a better sense of your motivations for attending this virtual meetup as well as future work that you may be interested in being part of, we are asking you to fill out this short form by January 31st.  During the meetup. each person will have an opportunity introduce themselves and the work of their projects.

A dear mentor, colleague, and advocate in our community passed away just before Christmas. Karen King, the program officer at NSF for this community, and an advocate for rigor and equity in all kinds of education, including CS education, has tragically passed. I remember after the 2018 summit in Detroit sitting with Karen for hours talking about opportunities and challenges in the landscape of CS education. She was thoughtful and I wish that I had more time with her.

NSF has mentioned that there will be many opportunities in academic conferences this spring to celebrate her life. Please remember our community members who knew Karen and have lost a dear friend and colleague, especially those still at the NSF who are not only dealing with the emotional loss, but also the necessity to operationalize her loss from their teams. We will miss you Karen.

-Leigh Ann DeLyser on behalf the RPPforCS Team

On December 17, we were joined by Colleen Lewis from Harvey Mudd College, who shared big categories within Computer Science PCK including Introducing programming, Teaching debugging, Promoting learning in GPS programming, Managing learning progressions, Selecting hardware or robots, Structuring collaboration, Inclusivity practices, and Misconceptions. We then crowd-sourced questions related to projects’ central problems of practice as they related to these eight categories, and had a robust conversation around how culturally-relevant and culturally-responsive instruction develops new kinds of PCK. You can find the recording, slides, and shared notes HERE.

Coming on January 21... Our theme from November through January has all to do with different kinds of Pedagogical Content Knowledge useful to the teaching and learning of computer science. Members of our own RPPforCS community have been incorporating approaches to Pedagogical Content Knowledge as a part of their professional development research within their RPPs. Tune in to hear from colleagues, and for an open floor to speak about your own project's recent experiences with PCK. We can't wait to reconnect!

Mark your calendars for the upcoming webinars:

• January 21 - PCK learning - 2:00 PM EST
• February- 25th Balancing research/implementation
• March- N/A (See you in Portland!)
• April- 21 Outcome data / Dissemination
• May- 26 Community share out

FIND OUR ARCHIVE OF PAST WEBINARS HERE

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