Integrating Computer Science Across the Core Strategies for K-12 Districts

Integrating Computer Science Across the Core is a guide to systematizing computer science and computational thinking practices in your school. While most books explain how to teach computer science as a stand-alone discipline, this innovative approach will help you leverage your existing curriculum to deepen and expand students’ learning experiences in all content areas. Effective, equitable, and sustainable, this blueprint provides principals, curriculum directors, directors of technology, and other members of your school or district leadership team with suggested organizational structures, tips for professional learning, and key resources like planning instruments.

1. The Emergence of Computer Science in K-12 Schools 2. A Blueprint for Embedding Computer Science into Learning and Teaching 3. Abstraction 4. Algorithms 5. Programming 6. Data 7. Networking 8. Getting Started

Tom Liam Lynch is Director of Education Policy at the Center for New York City Affairs and Editor-in-Chief of InsideSchools.org at The New School, USA, and a former education technology professor, English teacher, and school district official for the New York City Department of Education. Gerald Ardito is Associate Professor of Computer Science Education at Manhattanville College, USA. He was previously a middle school science teacher and Assistant Professor of STEM-D Education at Pace University, USA. Pam Amendola is an English teacher at Dawson County High School in Dawsonville, Georgia, and previously taught British and American literature at Brookwood High School in Snellville, Georgia, USA.