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Percent of undergrads intending to major in CS

The graph says it all. I think it’s a teacher problem, a lot of others think it’s a curriculum problem. In the end, they are both problems, but the most important is always the quality of the teacher, the quantity … Continue reading

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TEALS July update

The 2010-2011 school year just ended a few weeks ago.  That means preparation for the 2011-2012 school year is just starting.  The word for the 2011-2012 school year is “triple”. We are going from 10 TEALS teachers to 33, 4 … Continue reading

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TEALS teams up with Lake Washington School District for 2011-2012 school year

I am happy to announce that TEALS will partner with 3 additional schools in the Lake Washington School District for the upcoming 2011-2012 school year.  This brings the total number of TEALS schools to 13 for 2011-2012 and we will … Continue reading

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TEALS mentioned on Microsoft COO Kevin Turner’s Wireside Chat

TEALS got another Microsoft shout out from Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner’s internal quarterly Wireside Chat show. This is the same video that was show at Microsoft Global Exchange a few months back.  The internal version added caption and … Continue reading

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Sputnik moment

President Obama in his State of the Union also points out that we’re already in another Sputnik moment due to STEM in our current educational environment.  While Science and Math have been getting a lot of attention and are much more entrenched in … Continue reading

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First day of school for 7 new TEALS teachers in Seattle Schools

7 new TEALS teachers now have their first day under their belt. Jeremy and Jacob are teaching Intro CS at Hale, Andrew and Jason are teaching at Ballard, Tommy, Shah and Nathaniel are teaching at Cleveland. Congratulations to them! Back … Continue reading

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Blog moved

Looks like my old blog for when I was at Harvard Ed School on SpyMac is gone…This seems like a more permanent space for the blog.

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