Our Workshops
Workshop 1: Orientation and Intro to the PLC
During the first workshop (video above), the PiLa-CS team and participating teachers worked together to set the foundations of a successful summer through community norms building.
Workshop 2: Getting to know your students
In this workshop, teachers tackled a main concept of the PiLa-CS approach to equitable CS education -- getting to know students and using what you learn to shape what and how you teach.
Watch as the teachers surfaced what students have shared with them about experiences, language, and literacies from home and different communities, and then brainstorm ways to put these at the core of their lesson plans.
Featuring team members from Participating in Literacies and Computer Science (PiLa-CS).
Produced by Danielle Fuller
Workshop 3: Resources from the community
In this workshop, teachers considered how they would build on bring community conversations in their computing units, bringing the wider world into the classroom.
Featuring team members from Participating in Literacies and Computer Science (PiLa-CS).
Produced by Danielle Fuller
Workshop 4: Goals
In this workshop, teachers considered how they would map out the goals — including language and translanguaging goals — for their units in order to ensure they are interacting with CS education and language in an equitable way.
Workshop 5: Assessment
In this workshop, teachers considered ways in which they can take a holistic approach to creating assessments that accurately reflect students’ dynamic translanguaging practices, knowledge and abilities.
Sharing and Showcasing our Work
At the end of each PLC, the teachers presented their work to an audience of teacher, educators, and researchers interested in fostering equity in CS education.
In the 2021 Showcase, teachers focused on presenting an overview of the curriculum they developed over the course of the summer.
In the 2022 Showcase, teachers focused on a wider range of projects, from curriculum to social media campaigns to showcases of student work.
The project decks below show each teacher’s project presentation by the end of the PLC.
Storytelling
Throughout both PLCs, the PiLa-CS team collected the stories of teachers that we worked with and found multiple ways to tell said stories in an equitable and inclusive way. We are grateful to them for allowing us to tell their stories! We sought to both celebrate their identities, perspectives, and accomplishments and show other teachers and educators that it doesn’t take a fancy certification to introduce computer science to your classroom in an equitable way. The videos throughout this page and the projects below are some of the ways in which the PiLa-CS team has made sense of the stories our teachers have shared and experienced with us throughout the 2021 and 2022 PLCs.
Am I a CS Teacher?
Created by Kyla Yujiri
What does it mean to be a computer science teacher? Who gets to claim that they are one?
Teachers were interviewed prior to PiLa-CS's first PLC in Summer 2021. Listening to those interviews, Kyla was able to learn about these two teachers' backgrounds, thoughts, and experiences as Computer Science educators.
Explore the different pathways that these two teachers have taken to—in one way or another—become CS teachers.
Ilka Stoessel
Melissa Hannon
Computing Beginning
Corporate Job
Non-CS College Education
Teaching Beginning
Belief in CS and Equity in CS
CS in the Classroom
I am a CS Teacher
Understand the PiLa-CS experience through sound! Below you will find a soundscape and two podcasts that will help you connect to the environments and experiences of PiLa-CS teachers.
The Sound of PiLa-CS
Created by Raya Hudson
Episode 0: The Environment
This project is based on sound alone and dives into the world of the classroom and school as a whole, specifically in NYC. An important part of this project is also the way we interact with each other and how through new and old technology we can understand each other past language.
Episode 2: Growth
Two teachers from different schools talk about their sessions with PiLa-CS weekly and discuss how they have taught them new ways to tackle the next school year.
Music: David Versace - Inner Reflections
Episode 1: Community
Two teachers talk about what community means to them and how it impacts their ways of teaching.
Music: Lisofv - No Rest Or Endless Rest, Glaciære - Dolphin
Credits
This page was brought to you by the PiLa-CS interns, as supported by the rest of the team! As the summer PLCs rolled to a close and (most of) the interns prepared to move on to future prospects, we made it a goal to document the past two summers in a way that would make it easy for other potential PLC organizers to see what we did and adapt it to their own programs. Below is a short (non-comprehensive) overview of the work that went into making this page a reality!
Page layout and design by Sarane James and Kyla Yujiri.
Page index and Our Story sections written created by Sarane James.
PLC workshop videos and their descriptions created by Danielle Fuller. Other workshop descriptions written by Sarane James.
Generic versions of the workshop slide decks and resources created by Kyla Yujiri, Raya Hudson, Lauren Vogelstein and Sara Vogel.
Materials uploaded to NYU Archive and videos/sound files to NYU Stream by Sara Lauren Vogelstein and Sara Vogel.
2021 and 2022 example calendar created by Lauren Vogelstein. Schedule descriptions by Sarane James.
Showcase preview video by Raya Hudson. Descriptions by Sarane James.
Am I a CS Teacher flowchart and description by Kyla Yujiri.
Soundscape and podcasts by Raya Hudson.
Find out more about the interns and the rest of our team on the Our Team page!
