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Enter the Dungeon
Test Test. Can you hear me?
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AWSMCS Interview/Survey Thoughts
So I am part of a 3 year researcher-practioner-partnership with UT Austin called AWSMCS - Accelerating Women’s Success and Mastery in CS. Yesterday we were interviewed as part of their research project by a 3rd party for the second time. I jotted down my thoughts to help me respond to the questions. I want to expand upon those thoughts here.
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Rest and Recovery - How I Use My Breaks
There’s this concept of rest that I have been exploring and learning more of with each passing year. Questions such as “What is rest?” and “How do I rest?” inevitably end up leading to “How do I maximize my rest and optimize it so I can spend less time resting but still feel rested?”.
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2020-2021 Summative Conference with Principal and Starting to Post Again
I realized I haven’t posted in awhile, but with the Spring semester being the busiest semester, wedding planning starting to kick into full gear, and taking a break from school after it ended, I couldn’t muster the motivation to spend time to make another post.
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Developing an Interest in IT
My interest in the field of IT began almost 4 years ago in my current job as a Computer Science teacher.
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Iris Keyboard Update
I ordered some Ergodox tenting legs around with the plan of attaching them to my Iris keyboard to create a more ergonomic typing experience. However, I realized I could not just attach these directly onto the mid-layer - there was no way the legs would stay in!
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Another Student Brag Sheet
Another semester, another student brag sheet. My students are pretty awesome.
One thing I want to brag about is my Independent Study students personal projects. All of them have worked diligently on their projects throughout this semester. Some of them are continuing their projects onto the next semester while others are brainstorming new projects over the break. Excited for all of them. -
My First Keyboard Build - Iris
Yesterday I finished my first keyboard build! It is the Iris keyboard by keeb.io. I learned so much along the way.
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My Growth in Public Speaking
“Charles is so articulate.”
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Pre-Conference Meeting w/ The Principal
Currently 6:45 AM as I sit here in my classroom, beginning the brainstorming process of everything I would like to discuss with my appraiser (the principal) for this year.
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How I Became A Teacher
“How did I end up a teacher?”
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Student on the Curb - Thanked Me
I walked outside on Monday to a beautiful day. I saw one of my students sitting on the curb. I said “Hi _____! What are you doing?” He told me he was waiting for his mom to pick him up. We struck up a brief conversation about the weather and being picked up. I thought nothing more of the conversation.
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Quick Brag Sheet
Applied for a scholarship for a community college class and asked a colleague to write a recommendation for me. Here is my brag sheet.
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Goodbye Class of 2020: Thoughts on the 19-20 School Year, Feedback Received, Looking Ahead
End of another school year, and some more time to reflect on my practices and what worked and didn’t work.
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Spring 2020 AWSM CS Meeting
Here is the schedule: 8:00 Breakfast & Sign-In 8:30 Welcome 8:45 SciGirls Code: Strategies to Enage Girls (and All Kids) in STEM - Tricia Berry @STEMtricia triciaberry@txgcp.org 10:30 Break 10:45 Hands-on Workshop: Revising CS Course Descriptions - Carol Fletcher 11:30 Share out Course Description Revisions - Joshua Childs 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Small Group Online Course Debrief - Kate Woodward Young 1:45 Break 2:00 Lesson Planning with Equity in Mind - Joshua Childs 3:15 Logistics for Spring and Summer - Ryan Torbey 3:45 Wrap Up - Carol Fletcher 4:00 Adjourn
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Pre-Observation Meeting with Principal
I had my pre-observation meeting with my principal this past Friday. Right now it is Sunday and I am writing this on a mattress on the floor of my friend’s place in Austin. Weather is cloudy, cool (low 60s), and not humid. Wondering if weather affects what/how I write which is why I am including it here.
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List of Universities Accepting Computer Science as 'Foreign Language'
Will probably update this infrequently, just as I randomly look up colleges.
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Increasing Females does not Automatically Include Minorities
I was doing my weekly browse of twitter when an article tweeted by an AWSMCS lead caught my eye.
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CSTA Houston Meeting
I went to my first CS4TX Houston Meeting (CSTA Houston chapter). My first encounter with this organization was in 2018 when I went to the CSTA conference in Omaha, Nebraska. There I met the Vice President Henry Ramirez and together we talked about building up something to rival that of Arkansas’ boisterous group.
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UIL Practice Thoughts
We began our team UIL practice in January. My original reasons for only beginning in January were due to the fact students were still learning all the data structures and algorithms (time complexity) material during the first semester. Why should they be tested over things they haven’t learned yet - right? And yes, I still believe they should not be tested over things they haven’t leraned yet. But the team programming section - they are still able to do that.
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End of First Semester Reflections
AP CS A Grading, Corrections, utilizing short quizzes/warm-ups to ensure students do pre-reading (+5 on quiz grade, avg all + for plus test grade) VGD - Unity Create w/ Code, reading assignments importance
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First Week Reflection
Wow. What a week. As always, the first week of school takes me like a storm. Here’s to sore throats, always being ‘on’ mentally, and quick restroom breaks.
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Site Launch!
Finally getting around to putting this website together.
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