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Concerns: Getting girls interested in CS/ STEAM, provide a foundation in STEAM.
Needs: community tech outreach- STEAM
Mentorship/ scholarship/ internship opportunities. Start the CS enthusiasm in K-5

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1.Oakland High / Oakland Tech
2. SPED and English Learners
3. Demystification labels that make CS seem unattainable. Knowledge of what is CS and how it can be used in your life.
4. NS Make CS attainable and something that is used by all students.
5. Build Confidence in the CS classroom that continues on into products built for and by students. Have the higher level courses match the demo of the intro courses.

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Students of color, women, ELL, IEP, intersections thereof.

The gender and racial makeup of our literacy courses parallel those of the school; however, we have observed gender and racial disparity in our technical courses like AP CS A.

Change instructional practices, inform community members of what we are doing, make our practices more transparent to the community, communicate our vision in a way that carries the work we do

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The "AP" label (we start with APCSP) is a blessing and a curse. It lures in students who are motivated by the grade bump and AP credit - that's fine, anything that gets students in the door is a win. It also scares away students who have the potential to thrive and enjoy the course, so this year we're working to make our work more visible to potential recruits. We want students to see that what we do is accessible, fun, creative and personal.

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Estrella Elementary School recruits and engages students not meeting grade-level standards, English Learners, and girls. To provide opportunities for students to broaden their opportunities to learn to code.  We want to expand Scratch Jr. and Scratch schoolwide so that all students are exposed.   We are thinking about those students who struggle, lack motivation, and provide a way to ignite the love for technology, incorporating  CS within their daily schedule and using Zoom as a way to increase CS for all grade levels to participate. The goal is for students to use technology for all students. We have Scratch JR. Scratch and Robotics for 4th and 5th grade.

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1. Start from the beginning...providing access to computer science thinking and programs. Develop a district wide plan.
2. Demystify CS for all stakeholders (community, admin., students, staff). Leverage key stakeholders to help spread the message and help others expand their understanding of CS.
3.  Make a blueprint for cs or robotics clubs and recruit teachers at elementary and ms to conduct the clubs?

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1. Demographic % within CS classes as close as possible to Demographic % of overall student body
2. Students need to know what CS is and see themselves as belonging in CS
3. Reaching out to potential students (interest in video games, social media, etc); convincing admin at sites to prioritize CS...attending 8th grade info nights, etc.

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1. Gotta make it (what is it?) where all the cool kids are and involve the local tech community.
2. Expand definition of CS to include robotics, media arts, and networking/system design.  Its just not coding software.
3. Give female students foundation in STEAM.
4. More opportunities for them to see themselves in CS careers.
5. Middle School counselors enabled to counsel student to plan to take CS in HS.
6. To rethink Career Technical Education and make it more academic.

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1. Recruit female students, Latinx and Black students in Computer Science courses
2. Key issues are that not enough exposure to some students and not enough promotion, not enough students spread the word for CS classes. Some students find CS classes intimidating.
3.  My team's primary goal is to broaden representation and increase awareness by working with different existing clubs and including culturally relevant projects and role models.
4. Outreach with 8th graders before coming to freshmen CS class.
5. Differentiating the CS curriculum to accomodate all levels of student knowledge and skills, accomodating students' skills in typing
6. Matching the percentage of demographic of CS class to that of our school campus
7. Redefining what Computer Science is and how it is perceived by students (other areas of CS that are not limited to coding, software engineering)

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1) We want to recruit more female students into both introductory and AP Computer Science courses (current percentages are 39% and 41% respectively)
2) We are concerned that misconceptions about CS are deterring female students from enrolling in CS. We are also concerned that some of our other historically disadvantaged subgroups (students with IEPs and English Learners) are discouraged from taking Comp Sci classes.
3) We are going to focus on the "retention" rate in our CS program this year - ensuring that female students (and those from other subgroups) who took the intro class opt into the AP classes. We are also going to continue to work on our course selection process to improve how we message the courses to both students and their families.
4) We want to also think about how we message career opportunities for our students in these classes - we're thinking of a career day to increase exposure for our students.

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-It's about convincing our students that Computer Science is far more than just typing at a computer and technical expertise. It's about creating, problem solving and inventing.
-We want to work on increasing the number of girls (currently 30%) in our CS courses and more AA/Black students
-We want to show our students the products from CS courses so they become more informed about what they can create with CS