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Going Beyond the Hour of Code

Digital Promise

Take an online course. There are a number of excellent online learning opportunities designed specifically for educators. See Code.org’s comparisons of CS curricula by grade level: elementary curricula. See a sample letter to principal, advocacy slide deck , and additional resources. Some favorites (all free!)

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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As coronavirus ravaged Indian Country, the federal government failed its schools

The Hechinger Report

An April survey from the National Indian Education Association, a nonprofit that advocates for Indigenous students, found that students in BIE schools have been given far fewer resources to complete distance learning than their public school counterparts. By comparison, only around 30 percent of BIE schools were doing the same.

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