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What resources, links, and artifacts?

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What lingering questions do you have?

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Explore techniques and strategies for engaging schools that serve Native Indigenous student populations and tribal schools while ensuring access to Code.org offerings.

Guiding Questions:

How can Code.org build and develop a district program that is reflective of your needs, your experiences, and your needs as it pertains to your current role?

What tools, resources, partnerships, etc.,  have been vital in successfully sustaining partnerships with schools?

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Explore strategies for identifying, developing, and customizing outreach resources.

Guiding Questions:

What outreach have you experienced or done in the past or are you currently experiencing or doing that inspires the communities you’re working with to engage in computer science education?

Are there challenges with outreach efforts in Native American & Indigenous communities around computer science education that you’d like to share?

What feedback have you gotten or would you give about outreach efforts geared toward engaging Native American & Indigenous students in computer science?

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[EXTERNAL] Roundtable NAIPI Agenda - Handout

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How to build sustainability in our programs while also being considerate and avoid further harm in indigenous community?

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How to build sustainability in our programs while also being considerate and avoid further harm in indigenous community?

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Communicate and apologize if you make a mistake. An apology goes a long way. Hire more indigenous facilitators, CS teachers, representatives.

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We should be aware of how we pick schools/districts for the program - not all the schools receive an equal amount of funding (e.g. border schools can absorb a lot of it)

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When we taught science concepts, we would offer the Native approach as well as the modern approach to show different approaches for thriving

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Commitment to a long term relationship - growing with the community!

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Commitment to a long term relationship - growing with the community!

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Lance West: Our young members of the community are our future leaders. I want Code.org to ask questions and teach critical thinking for our students. Being critical in thought and questioning. The lithium mine is being built in Northern Nevada near indigenous communities. Elevating the voices of the communities we serve and specifically students and asking questions. Being vulnerable and open.

Allison: AI Task force with students on the task force. Digital citizenships that help with lesson planning for teachers and general ed on what generative AI is. Expose students to tools that can really personally help them. District policy where parents have to sign before students receive device or tools. Closing the digital divide and developed a mandatory class for students and teachers can download the course in K-5 students.

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Awareness for communities about what is going on with CS in the community! 

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Awareness for communities about what is going on with CS in the community! 

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We found that the language & culture teacher is teaching Computer Science - but there's no words for computer, programming, etc.

We convened a council to help develop words to support computer science concepts

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The reality of racism. How do you combat when teachers are saying abhorrent things about their students? There is real racism in towns that border reservations. How can we expect students to graduate when their teachers/schools/communities don't support them.

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Sustainability - flexibility in delivery!

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Sustainability - flexibility in delivery!

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Being able to reach everybody - creating an equity possibility. Only teachers who could drive were getting access. Virtual to anyone who can log on

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Can Code.org really commit to the level/the long-term relationship needed by these communities? e.g. NAIPI was here, then it was gone, now it's back again. With a history of broken treaties, commitment is important

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Do not have the infrastructure - provide ACCESS

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Do not have the infrastructure - provide ACCESS

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Is there evidence of co-creation?

Have the offerings that are available taken into account the initial ideation (not even just the feedback) of these communities

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Not hearing a lot of code.org in indigenous communities - how do we engage?

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Not hearing a lot of code.org in indigenous communities - how do we engage?

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how is it being brought to the white dominant culture

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How do we scale? Maybe not everything can scale. Because this work is intensive work. So you need to know/understand the different roles of different orgs

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not a reality for many schools in the near term

integration, although interesting, is challenging

more intentional about engaging the community, helping teachers make it relavent with a sustainability plan to continue the support

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Modeling with teachers how our curriculum works!

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Modeling with teachers how our curriculum works!

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how are they (the districts) thinking about the goals?

might be better as a co-creating partnership

data sovereignty, need to be aware of what data is being collected

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Making the teacher aware that they can teach CS!

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Making the teacher aware that they can teach CS!

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relationship based

specific curriculum (like code.org) might not be the right fit

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Kapor Center's Native Tech Ecosystem Report

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Kapor Center's Native Tech Ecosystem Report

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Seeding Innovation Project

AISES and the Kapor Center are working together to provide culturally revitalizing computer science curriculum to partner schools across the county. We work collaboratively with our school sites to create an engaging computer science curriculum, integrate cultural traditions, language, stories, art and more. It is a tribe-specific computer science curriculum that is built with and for the partner communities.

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In collaboration with AISES, this report examines the current state of Native representation and inclusion across the tech ecosystem.

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Allowing parents to observe robotics activity! 

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Allowing parents to observe robotics activity! 

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Parents are so proud - community buy in!

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Intergenerational experiences were important - e.g. the caregivers who were dropping off family members were curious & they stayed!

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60% nationwide of Native and Indigenous do not have access to interner

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60% nationwide of Native and Indigenous do not have access to interner

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Unplugged and kinesthetic!

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How are we thinking about families, family messaging, and family involvement?

For our convening we stayed at the dorms & had family members coming (10% wanted to bring family members)

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Lance West - Principal - Mineral County School District 

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Lance West - Principal - Mineral County School District 

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Outreach will be more impactful if you build in leaders from the communities at a grassroots level to build out the outreach. Healing and building trust by opening up and telling your story will build connections by getting to know people. The indigenous communities have intergenerational trauma and being considerate of that is important and introducing connections by acknowledging the realities communities have faced.

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Doing self-education before you go into a community is important. Be aware of the trauma & the boarding schools

Be very intentional about understanding the protocols (e.g. going through Tribal Council). Be intentional to understand what's expected

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Working backwards , culturally relevant to their tribe. Creating work that is the bare minimum and focusing on results focused curriculum. Do something that is tangible!!!

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AISES

1. Lighter touch - Sphero partnership

2. Working on centering indigenous knowledge and concepts

3. higher ed - cybersecurity initiatives

4. research on how indigenous students persist in CS

5. CS Ed Programs - integrating indigenous culture and knowledge, goal of 10 schools (2 in NY, MN)

1. Had to re-evaluate approach. Decided to start with understanding what the teacher was teaching.

2. Eg. a teacher starts with teaching about birds - work with them to figure out how CS can help

3. Students faced with choice about taking their native language class vs CS, but why can't it be both. Integration of CS, and centering on indigenous culture

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Upper school students at the tribal school helped. Every time there was an early release (once a month) - they would do an hour of code & the upper school students would come into the lower school students to help the teachers. It was a great experience for everyone

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Korea - what are the teaching objectives for AI - representation, society impact, etc.

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Work with the community to develop modules! Some modular content is not scalable but how to do empower the community members?

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Near-peer mentoring is a very untapped resource in this space. Mentoring experiences from other community members - leverage internal community knowledge building

It's easy to show up as the subject matter expect - Near-peer has been strong

When their peers come in to teach they're much more engaged in the dialogue

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Curriculum - bringing code.org curriculum to students and culturally responsive curriculum. Funneling and funding toward resources to curriculum to make it culturally responsive created by native and indigenous.

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Fear around teachers not being able to do this - we facilitated Google volunteers to do HoC virtually.

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What can CS do for you and your community?

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What can CS do for you and your community?

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Pushback around code night (HoC) and it didn't land well. Fear of gateway to leaving

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The conversations seem to go best when was ask what the communities need, versus what we have to offer/our talking points

What do your students & schools need? What questions do they want answered? What do your communities want for your children?

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Showing up in person, greeting people, showing up to learn - coming with the right mindset

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Within a community - through deep relationships with one another over a period of time, sometimes it's a lifetime. It's not a transaction - it's relational

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For AK students, parents want their kids to be educated but to stay in the community. Allowing our kids to work from home by bringing in the bandwidth.

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Engaging the native leaders at events was helpful to share knowledge & they had a strong network. These spaces can be a rich place for bi-directional growth

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Seeding Innovation Project

AISES and the Kapor Center are working together to provide culturally revitalizing computer science curriculum to partner schools across the county. We work collaboratively with our school sites to create an engaging computer science curriculum, integrate cultural traditions, language, stories, art and more. It is a tribe-specific computer science curriculum that is built with and for the partner communities.

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In collaboration with AISES, this report examines the current state of Native representation and inclusion across the tech ecosystem.

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The education programs in Alaska already had a relationship. It can be helpful to explore what relationships are available

It took some time to understand & navigate the systems and timelines for grants

Learning where and how to fund what pieces - it can be different what they need money for than traditional schools

Understand what the community needs to be successful

When we talk about native students in traditionally white schools - there's supposed to be a parent's council

Points of contact can be amazingly closed - finding points of contact and building trust to get a call back has been a challenge. Starting with teachers has been exciting

There's a perception that when Native American students go to traditionally white schools they get all the extra resources they need "for free", or if there's only one student some schools discount the necessity of support

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Connecting language and culture to CS was really important - reclaiming language and symbols within the curriculum

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EduTech (Tabitha) - able to secure a grant, did targeted calls - that helped generate the interest in cybersecurity opportunity where they reached many native students - Using Code.org, Cyber.org and Minecraft - there are already many 'worlds' in different native languages that were interesting to students. Potential collaboration opportunities with South Dakota, Wyoming, North Dakota

bit.ly/IndigenousCS

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Reframing the pitch for a career in tech but changing it to staying in your community and giving back. Ex. Plant life app.

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Lakota AI Code Camp! - getting the talent into the research. Creating pathways for computer science. Communities want to learn AI and CS to reclaim their language and culture.

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I serve as the Chief Academic Officer for Arizona Science Center, the AZ Regional Partner for Code.org. We currently work with four high schools to increase access to CS through the Native American Code Writers Program grant. We are hoping to expand this opportunity to more schools throughout the state. I am looking forward to hearing from others about what they are doing and lessons learned, as well as solutions to potential challenges others may face as well

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I work at the Sacramento County Office of Education, which is a Regional Partner of Code.org. I guide a USDOE EIR project that seeks to learn about the needs and best practices of small and rural schools that are implementing K-12 CS pathways. Our research project project does not yet serve Native and Indigenous students and teachers of small and rural schools; as such, I hope to learn from others during this roundtable discussion.

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My name is Nimisha Mondal and I am the Senior Director of Innovation at Code.org. I have the distinct privilege of working with leaders across our organization to identify important new areas of work and work to ensure their success. I'm looking forward to learning from everyone at today's session and continuing to support the NAIPI team internally to ensure we have the staffing and resources needed to move this critical work towards success. 

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My name is Nimisha Mondal and I am the Senior Director of Innovation at Code.org. I have the distinct privilege of working with leaders across our organization to identify important new areas of work and work to ensure their success. I'm looking forward to learning from everyone at today's session and continuing to support the NAIPI team internally to ensure we have the staffing and resources needed to move this critical work towards success. 

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I am an Instructional Design Manager at Mouse, a CSEd non-profit based in NYC that serves as the Code.org Regional Partner for New York State.Our work is centered around disrupting inequitable access to careers in tech. We educate and empower students and teachers from historically excluded communities to use STEM & design skills to solve real problems and make meaningful change in our world. I am so excited to meet and learn from you all!

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Hello! Great to meet you and looking forward to chatting aand sharing ideas. I am a coFOunder of Computer Science Alliance, the RP for NM. We have been running CS PD Weeks with approximately 200 teachers and 12-24 week long courses for 5 years! This summer we partnered to work on the 4 Corners convening for CS Native American serving teachers. It was not only a great personal growth opportunity but also a wonderful relationship building exercise.

We are working on many fronts of CS Quantum, AI and Cybersecurity and hoping to extend our work from our NSF RPP around Culturally Relevant Pedagogy is CS.

I am looking forward to getting to know everyone!

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Wonderful to meet you all! I'm looking forward to hearing about your work and learning from you. My organization, CS Alliance, is the RP for New Mexico. We have worked hard to develop strong relationships with teachers, administrators and policy makers. We have headed up initiatives & partnerships to increase CS education across the state with a focus on Native American-serving schools. We have developed a microcredential for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in CS in order to help educators that are working with with indigenous students to include these important pedagogical approaches. We are also partners on a Navajo Tech University project, Let's Talk Code, helping develop teacher PDs so that the faculty and undergrads that can ultimately become the voice of CS education for their communities. We were also core partners on the inaugural, and very successful, 4 Corners CS Convening with over 150 educators attending to learn more about CS education for Native American students. I look forward to the Roundtable and other opportunities to share and learn.

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I'm a Senior Product Manager here at Code.org. I run the Platform team which means things like enabling Code.org experiences in offline or low-connectivity environments, developing Learning Management System integrations - including upcoming ones for Canvas & Schoology, and managing our experiences for international & other non-English locales.

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I am the Program Director of EduTech, which is part of North Dakota Information Technology. Our team also holds the State code.org training partnership and CYBER.ORG partnership. I have also served as an Elementary Teacher, Information Technology Specialist and Curriculum Technology Partner. I grew up on the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota and am a lineal descendant with strong familial ties to that tribe. I am honored to be connected to an initiative specifically aimed to serve Native American students and teachers who serve Native American students with Computer Science and Cybersecurity concepts.

Our state has the national and state award winning "PK20-W Initiative". North Dakota's phase one goal is to lead the nation in computer science and cybersecurity education. A shared vision of the future has enabled stakeholders across the public and private sectors to pursue a bold vision of Every Student, Every School, Cyber Educated. We are currently planning Phase 2, which includes creating a comprehensive & coordinated approach to being future ready, across our educational systems, workforce organizations, and operational activities.

I look forward to sharing our successes and learning more from other members of the panel.

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I am Elizabeth Pekrul. I manage the Code.org Regional Partnership for Oklahoma. I look forward to discussing ways we can work to increase Native American CS education for our Oklahoma students.

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Hello! My name is Alicia Modoor and I am a Program Manager at Code.org. Prior to joining Code.org a year ago. I served as a program manager with Engaging Creative Minds and worked on expanding STEM programs in rural areas across South Carolina. I am passionate about educational equity and feel honored to be able to hear and learn from voices in this roundtable discussion on the ways to move forward in expanding access to CS Education within indigenous communities.

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Hello! My name is Banks Spicer, District Success Manager, at Code.org. Prior to joining Code.org, I served as an elementary school teacher and assistant principal in North Carolina. I am honored to be part of this very important roundtable discussion and look forward to learning from each of you ways we can create a supportive, effective and impactful district program committed to advancing Native American CS education initiatives.

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1. Click the (+) in the bottom right corner to add a sticky note OR the (+) above the Introductions column

2. Tell us about yourself - What is your role? Where are you from? What excites you about this roundtable?

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I'm the Program Manager for NAIPI at Code.org, currently residing in Charleston, SC, with my roots originating from Babylon, NY. My background includes experience as a former school library media specialist, and I am deeply committed to fostering engaging learning communities that provide support for both educators and students. I am excited about the prospect of collaborating with each of you and gaining valuable insights to collectively enhance access to computer science education for Native and Indigenous students and teachers.