Heather Sherwood from the Educational Development Center, talks about her important work on Building CT Readiness: A Framework for Integrating Computational Thinking Across Subjects in High-Poverty Elementary Schools, an NSF-funded project investigating and refining a set of resources designed to help elementary schools clarify their definitions of CT and CT integration, to articulate their vision and plans for CT implementation, and to monitor the effectiveness of teacher professional development in CT instruction. Kristina and Heather translate and talk to this technical language which, in the end, boils down to the fact that students now must learn how to succeed in a device-driven world, and there are some real and effective solutions to do that well.

This episode also features a special guest, David Carter from Vernier Software & Technology, who shares some new news about the exciting new schedule of Spring 2020 Professional Development Workshops. Vernier is also a sponsor, and can more information on the workshops can be found at vernier.com/training.

The episode is also sponsored by InnovateK12. Contact President and co-founder Eric Schneider today at eric@innovatek12.org or log into the website at www.innovatek12.org/services to learn more.