Description of Project:
This guide is the product of a community of educators and researchers committed to equity-focused work. We draw on the knowledge and experiences of educators and researchers who have laid the foundation for equity efforts in CS and in education. As a collective of educators, teachers, administrators, learners, and leaders, we are committed to engaging in critical reflection and practice with and around computing and computing education.
We were purposefully brought together to provide professional development to New York City Public School teachers as part of the district’s CS Ed initiatives. The Director of Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education, Christy Crawford, organized us as a group because of our range of professional experience and the diverse identities we hold around ability, class, gender and sexual orientation, language, nationality, race and ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, and more. Some of our many identities are reflected in Figure 1. We have spent time grappling with what these perspectives have offered as we have worked to better understand critical computing education.
How it was Made:
This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Awards CNS-1738645, DRL-1837446, and DRL-2420361 and a grant from the George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF). The entire project was inspired by the EECS initiative developed for NYCPS with support from the FPS. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF, GLEF, NYCPS, or FPS.
