Teaching Coding Skills in Developing Countries

What I Learned Leading a Programming Bootcamp in Haiti

Cool Hand Barry

President Obama just became the first sitting president to travel from the White House to the big house and visit a federal prison…

Spreading STEM by connecting it to English and History

My Experience at Maker Faire 2015 (and Questions Raised about the Future of Making)

by Mikala Streeter

Waiting at the Caltrain early on a Sunday morning, it was clear that today was a special day. Families lined the platform in Mountain View…

Why poor students will always be behind

In our current system of education (and well, also society)

We are designing schools for poor students to catch up with rich white kids (RWK), while they have already moved on to the next big thing. At this rate, poor students will…

The First Days of School

How to welcome (or not welcome) a new cohort of students

On Tuesday, I’m starting a PhD program at Georgia Tech to research teacher development in computer science. While I’m mostly excited about starting, I’m more frustrated by the lack of communication from…

saying the pledge of allegiance

yesterday, after too many years to count, i said the pledge of allegiance while visiting a school.

Making Computer Science Sticky

“Sticky” is much more than “fun”.

One class per term

In high school

Inspired by the TED talk below about Quest University in Canada.

What if the school year was split into 6 terms of 6 weeks, and during each term students only took one class for half of the day every day? 4 hours a day, every day…