CSTA Washington
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Gerardo Bermudez holds a unique position in the CS Education landscape. He is currently a software engineering manager with Microsoft, who is also in the STEP CS (Secondary Teacher Education Program – Computer Science) at the University of Washington. Gerardo also taught high school computer science for several years as a volunteer with TEALS. For…
Computer Science Education and Career and Technical Education (CTE) have a close and mutually reinforcing relationship in Washington state. More than 85% of computer science course sections — and an even higher percentage of student enrollments — are offered through CTE programs. In addition, Digital Technology is not only recognized as its own career cluster…
This post contains summaries of the following posts on data dashboards on Washington CS and CTE Education during the period of 2019-2024: The code and data for all of these dashboards may be found on a public repository on Github. Washington educators and education administrators should also review the following posts for guidance on interpreting…
A report on the distribution of CTE (Career and Technical Education) enrollments across the 14 career clusters and how this distribution varied across demographic groups in Washington state in SY2023-24.
This lesson plan from CSTA Responsible AI Fellow Denise Thompson, “Audit the AI,” is designed as a plug-and-play model you can share with your Science, Social Studies, and ELA departments to show them how AI can actually enhance formative assessment.
This report lists the districts with the highest CTE Enrollments per Student in SY 2023-24 and the districts with the highest enrollment rates in each of the fourteen CTE career clusters. This data is retrieved from the two Tableau dashboards created by CSTA Washington to help educators understand what students are taking what CTE courses…
This report summarizes data on enrollments in CTE courses by CIP (Classification of Instructional Programs) Codes from the two Tableau dashboards created by CSTA Washington to help educators understand what students are taking what CTE courses in Washington state: While the following data on CTE Enrollment Growth by CIP Code can be retrieved from these…
Erin Murphy is the Computer Science teacher at Starbuck School (student population 31). Starbuck is a TK-8 school in rural Southeastern Washington. Erin also teaches 1st and 2nd grade, along with Music. Erin’s CS journey started in 2022 after she got her Master’s in Teaching. Her principal saw a gap that needed to be filled….
Anthony Barba is a 26-year teaching veteran and in his 6th year of teaching computer science at East Valley High in Yakima, Washington.
This post identifies the schools and districts in Washington with the highest (and lowest) Gender Relative CS participation rates in 2023-24. The dashboard CS Education in Washington Demographic Drilldown 2019-24 provides data on the percentage of girls enrolled in CS in a particular school, district, or ESD. The dashboard also also provides data on the Boy CS…