C'est la Z

We're spending a little under 2 weeks in the Netherlands.

Recently within my alumni community there was a discussion of Founders School - a private for profit school which is a specialty school under the umbrella of Alpha School.

Crowdsourced Blanket Time to wrap up the 2026 CSTA conference.

So it turns out the third day of CSTA2026 was pretty light for me.

Tuesday started with two more sessions.

Jaxx Yesterday the conference started at around noon.

So I'm already down in the Big Easy.

Another big gap in posting.

Giant This past Friday, I had the chance to see "Giant," the play written by Mark Rosenblatt.

THe Netlogo Center is running their first in person conference at the end of June in Chicago (info and registration).

This past Friday I ran a third iteration of Pitchfest.

Devorah and I are spending the week in Boston, well techincally Cambridge.

Earlier today, I was informed that Stan Teitel, former principal of Stuyvesant high school had passed away at age 77.

So, one of the things I've been doing since retirement is working for and with my alumni community.

I wanted to follow up on my earlier post on why teaching CS still matters.

Still in St.

Still stuck in St.

I was going to wait to write this up until I got home.

Time for another SIGCSE - the big Computer Science Education conference.

History is a funny thing.

Finally we get to teachers observing teachers - what Mark was writing about to begin with.

Cervantes monument Taking time out from my observation blog posts to write up a trip report.

Following up on my last post, let's dive in to being oberved as a model for teacher improvement and teacher evaluation.

Back in for the evening.

It's 10:00am and I'm sitting in my hotel room in Barcelona.

Over a month since my last post.

Last week my StuyCS family community had a discussion about Zohran Mamdani's plans for gifted education.

I saw this release from NYSED the other day.

I listened to the latest episode of Kristen Stephen-Martinez's CS Ed Podcast.

Today is Labor Day.

We basically finished up our trip in Pesaro, a resort town on the Adriatic Sea.

Next three days were in Bologna.

Time for a trip report.

Lets start off with Cleveland and then we'll get to my suggestions for the CSTA.

Exhibit Hall Let's start with the exhibit hall.

Let's talk about the final two sessions I attended.

Thursday, day 3.

Four sessions up for today.

With the keynotes out of the way, let's get to some sessions.

Just got back from CSTA 2025.

Saw this article in the New York Times yesterday.

Warning: This post is political and involves my views on antisemitism and the Gaza situation.

Although retired, I'm trying to keep some skin in the game.

This article made its rounds this past week.

How many different intro CS courses should we have?

The truth is, I don't use those modern AI tools much.

Based on some of the feedback I got on my last post, I thought I'd dive a little deeper on using slide decks.

The other day I read Kristin Stephens-Martinez's latest blog post talking about how she has started to insert a daily plan slide at the front of her class slide decks.

Is it CS for All or is it All for CS?

To finish up, we'll look at some of the other sessions I attended but first a couple of notes.