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CSTA
Earlier this week, all CSTA members received an email from ElectionBuddy.com with a personalized link to the ballot for the 2019 elections. If you haven't received this email, contact customerservice@csteachers.org.
Two-thirds of the CSTA Board of Directors is elected by CSTA and CSTA+ members worldwide. The candidates for the 2019 elections are:
- K-8 Teacher Representative: Alana Robinson, Vicky Sedgwick
- 9-12 Teacher Representative: Doug Bergman, Art Lopez
- School District Representative: Dan Blier, Bryan Twarek
- At-Large Representative: Lien Diaz, Michelle Friend
Full details about the election, including statements by the candidates, can be found on CSTA's website. Vote today!
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CSTA
Registration for the 2019 CSTA Annual Conference is now open. The conference, set for July 7–10, in Phoenix, will feature 30 hours of professional development opportunities, access to up to 80 exhibitors, and opportunities to network with your fellow CS educators.
Register today!
By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 For at least the last decade, there has been a push in our profession nationally to find ways to engage more girls in STEM-related courses and careers. This push has not gone unnoticed to me in my own New Hampshire high school, where currently more than 50 percent of students enrolled in AP Calculus and 80 percent of students enrolled in AP Biology are girls. The statistics are similar for other high-level STEM courses. What's more, girls are performing as well, if not better, academically in these courses as boys.
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EdScoop
For teachers that have always wanted to use augmented reality in the classroom — technology that superimposes digital images on top of a view of the real world through a smartphone or other mobile device — but haven't had the chance to explore it, author, speaker and edtech consultant Jaime Donally has some suggestions.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Georgia Senate approved legislation that injects computer science courses into public education starting in middle school. Senate Bill 108 by Sen. P.K. Martin, R-Lawrenceville, says 0.5 percent of high school graduates take a computer science course and there are thousands of unfilled computer science jobs in Georgia. It requires that school districts offer computer science at at least one of their high schools by the fall of 2022 and that all middle schools offer "exploratory" computer science courses. The mandate grows to all high schools by 2024.
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eSchool News
Introducing a robot into the classroom is a surefire way to grab students' attention — but robots do more than excite. When educators use programmable robots for K-12 learning, they're helping students develop important skills such as critical thinking and teamwork. Robots are accessible for students of all ages — even younger students who don't yet have strong coding and programming skills. Research says students are more likely to maintain their interest in coding if they're exposed to it at an early age. One engaging solution: robots for K-12 classes.
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eSchool News
According to Code.org, the majority of Americans want schools to teach computer science, but only 35 percent of high schools teach it. And even though 15 states have adopted a policy to give all high school students access to computer science courses, universities prepare way fewer computer science teachers than we need. It's more abysmal in the younger grades, with only six states giving all K-12 students access.
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District Administration Magazine
This time of year, most school systems are in the middle of their budget processes. Unfortunately, dwindling school budgets and annual cost cutting, while still being expected to deliver top-quality educational opportunities for students, is a common theme across the country. Technology department budgets are often among the highest in school systems and the most misunderstood. There are elements of the technology budget that are critical to not only the education but also to the business side of operating a school system. However, when it comes to cutting budgets, departments are simply given a percentage based on their budget.
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EdTech Magazine
The Chromebook App Hub — a new resource to help teachers find and integrate Google educational apps in the classroom — will launch later this year, Google announced today at SXSW EDU 2019 in Austin, Texas. To create the hub, Google's design team incorporated input from an advisory board of K–12 teachers, IT leaders and instructional technology specialists. Currently, teachers have to comb through millions of Chromebook apps to find the ones that best fit their individual classrooms.
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