Social discussion of CS in K-12

[Todd Lash <lashtodd AT champaignschools.org>]

​Looking forward to celebrating the tremendous effort, vision and sacrifices of our friend Kerris.  See everyone soon!

Todd

Todd Lash

Magnet Teaching Specialist/Instructional Coach

Kenwood Elementary School

1605 W. Kirby Ave

Champaign, IL 61821

217.351.3815

Twitter:  @Todd_Lash

The Kenwood Tech Story

"If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow."  -John Dewey

#daretoshare

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From: ctrl-shift-bounces AT lists.mste.illinois.edu <ctrl-shift-bounces AT lists.mste.illinois.edu> on behalf of Reese, George Clifford <reese AT illinois.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2015 7:47 AM
To: ctrl-shift AT lists.mste.illinois.edu
Subject: [Ctrl-Shift] meet tonight at the Quality at 7 PM

 

Friends,

 

It’s election day. Please vote. As we all know, there is the school board slate and also the mayor in Champaign. In Urbana, it’s the park board. Also, the Parkland board in both towns.

 

This evening, let’s gather at the Quality Bar at 110 N. Neil. It’s at the corner of Neil and East Chester. If it’s not raining, we can sit outside, otherwise the Quality is rather spacious and we will find a table inside. For this evening, it will be good to celebrate the work of our founding organizer, Kerris Lee. It was almost 3 years ago, the end of May 2012, that Kerris brought the new administration at Unit 4 together with business people and some of us at MSTE to begin this adventure in computational thinking in the schools. Much has happened in those less-than-three years: pilots in the middle schools, the focus on Kenwood, the CTRL-shift meetings, presentations by teachers and, most important, by students, proposals, conferences, our expanding discussions and growing visibility. It has been and continues to be a joyous and thought-provoking adventure. We should raise a special toast to Kerris tonight in gratitude for all he has put into CTRL-Shift.

 

George

 

 

 

 

George Reese

Office for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (MSTE)

505 East Green St.
Suite 102

Champaign, IL 61820

217-333-6604