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Grades and Schedule

Went from teaching K-4th to 1st-4th grade

Went from A/B Day schedule to A/B week schedule

Resources

Teaching with no to limited devices and resources

Curriculum

Started with curriculum bought from another charter school district then transitioned to full autonomy.

Instructed bilingually, Spanish and English.

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Grades and Schedule

2nd-4th grade

Trimesters with two classes per grade level.

Resources

Students were 1-1

Established a partnership with Latinitas

Curriculum

We used our own curriculum

Differentiated

Visuals, bilingual, various

Cross-curricular

Extra hurdle

Pandemic and switching to Distance Learning

Solely focusing on Core Content

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Cultural identity

Curriculum relevance

Equity (especially during pandemic)

Reforming the status quo.

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John Dewey

Student centered education and curriculum

Paolo Freire

Awareness about power dynamics

Changing the current status quo

Counter narrative about the oppressed communities

Paul Feyerabrand

Education pluralism

Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic

Critical Race Theory

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1. How can I transfer Computer Science skills at my current special purpose (alternative) high school campus as an English teacher?

2. Limited resources  and lack of pre-established connection does makes it tough, especially if I am in a new school setting.

3. With STARR around the corner, what technological resources can help their learning.

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No previous Computer Science background but having to teach it.

Lack of resources and computer literacy

Low literacy in their L1 and L2.

Differentiation within the classroom and through the various grade levels.

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Founding school

Taught Computer Science from K-4th

Establishing and expanding a Computer Science curriculum and program

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1. 2nd grade is the best starting point to start learning

2. Literacy can also be assisted through technology

1. Typing Club

2. Visuals

3. Bilingual adapted audio directions

4. Connecting with prior knowledge.

3. Cross curricular curriculum through collaboration with their  classroom teachers made it easier for students to apply their skills

4. Switching from lecturing to actual application and student ownership helped promote engagement.

5. Elementary students learn easier through gaming platforms.

1. Scratch

2. Code.org

3. Code Combat

4. Kodable

6. It provided a platform for our students with accommodations to be successful in the classroom.

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1. I am a current fifth-year teacher at Pharr San Juan Alamo ISD.

2. I am a first-year Curriculum and Instruction doctoral student through University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and principal-in-training through Texas Region 1.

3. My current research is on Bilingual and Technology education.

4. Have taught from kindergarteners to adults as old as 56 in the K-12 setting.

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Buber, Martin. I and Thou. 2d ed. New York: Scribner, 1958.

Beaudrie, Sara M., Marta Fairclough, and Guadalupe Valdes. 2012. Introduction: Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States. In Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States: The State of the Field, edited by SARA M. BEAUDRIE and MARTA FAIRCLOUGH, 1–18. Georgetown University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2tt42d.5

Dewey, John. The Child and the Curriculum,. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1902.

Feyerabend, Paul. Against Method. Revised ed. 32.

Potowski, Kim. 2012. “Identity and Heritage Learners: Moving Beyond Essentializations”. In Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States: The State of the Field, edited by Sara M. Beaudrie And Marta Fairclough, 179–200. Georgetown University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2tt42d.14.

Delgado, R. & Stefancic, J. (2017). Critical race theory: An introduction (3rd Ed.). New York University Press.

Freire, P. (2018). Pedagogy of the oppressed. Bloomsbury Academic. (Original work published 1968)

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1. How can I make the content manageable and engaging for ALL students with no experience in Computer Science?

2. How can I make the content cross curricular?

3. How can incorporate whole person instruction and literacy through coding?

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1. In process of expanding Latinitas and establishing other organizations like them.

2. Finding resources that are more manageable for all of students.

3. Finding ways to incorporate multicultural literature, whole person instruction, and Computer Science while making it manageable during, and even post, distance learning?

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