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UTeach Conference 2016 10th Annual May 24–26, 2016 THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN Program AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center • Austin, Texas Featured Speakers Keynote QUINCY BROWN Quincy Brown, Ph.D., is an AAAS S & MICHAEL MARDER T Policy Fellow and co-producer of the 2015 National Maker Faire. She Michael Marder is a professor of earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science physics in the Center for Nonlinear from Drexel University and was the Dynamics at the University of Texas at recipient of a CI Fellows Postdoctoral Austin. He is the co-founder of UTeach, Research Fellowship award. She is has served as its co-director since its also a Computer Science Professor at inception, and has helped organize its Bowie State University. Her research national expansion. interests include HCI, CS Education, and Broadening Participation in Computing. In 2011, she His research in physics focuses on why founded Girls Who Will, a summer program for middle and things break, with investigations that high school girls to engage them in game design, mobile app have ranged from comparisons of theory and experiments in development, wearable computing, and 3D printing. the fracture of brittle silicon to studies of hydrofracturing. He is the author of the graduate text Condensed Matter Physics. Through her research, she seeks to identify methods of facilitating human interaction with advanced technologies, Michael’s work in education includes development of including mobile devices, to support learning. Her current classroom observation protocols and examination of causal projects include exploring the ways in which young children effects in longitudinal data, drawing on scientific visualization use touch and gesture interactions with mobile devices, and statistical mechanics. first responders’ use of mobile devices during emergency evacuations, and modeling inquiry behaviors on mobile devices. Opening Plenary: Computer GAIL CHAPMAN Gail Chapman, Director of Outreach Science for All Panel for Exploring Computer Science, works with partner districts on OWEN ASTRACHAN strategic planning related to implementation of ECS, including Owen Astrachan is the Director of professional development, leadership Undergraduate Studies in Computer development, and sustainability. Science and Professor of the Practice at Duke University, where he has She is co-designer of the ECS taught in four decades and two curriculum and professional millennia. In addition to teaching development model and represents the ECS program as lead computer science, he builds curricula facilitator for the CS10K Community of Practice. and approaches to teaching intended for broad adoption and adaptation. Prior to joining the ECS team, Gail taught high school mathematics and computer science, including AP Computer Owen received an NSF Career award for introducing design Science, for 15 years and subsequently worked on the AP patterns into undergraduate courses, was an inaugural recipient Computer Science program at both ETS and College Board; of the NSF/CISE Distinguished Education Fellow Award for this work included assessment development, curriculum emphasizing problem-oriented approaches, and is the PI for the design, and professional development. NSF/College Board CS Principles Project designed to create a broader, more accessible AP course in computer science. In 1995, he received Duke’s Robert B. Cox Distinguished Teaching in Science Award; in 1998, he received the Outstanding Instructor Award while on sabbatical at the University of British Columbia; and in 2002, he received Duke’s Richard K. Lublin award for “ability to engender genuine intellectual excitement, ability to engender curiosity, knowledge of field and ability to communicate that knowledge.” He enjoys thinking, running, collaborating, and pushing limits gently. FEATURED SPEAKERS 3 Featured Speakers DEBORAH KARIUKI and policy. In 2014, she convened and chaired the Texas Computer Science Task Force, which resulted in the Deborah Kariuki came from Kenya in publication of a white paper called Building the Texas 1992 to attend Texas State University, Computer Science Pipeline: Strategic Recommendations where she completed her Bachelor for Success. She also helped to found the Texas Alliance for of Science in Computer Science and Computer Science Education and has served on the Texas Digital Electronics. After working for Association of School Boards (TASB) Legislative Advisory 12 years as a programmer, Deborah Council, the Comptroller’s Financial Allocation Study for decided to become a teacher and Texas Advisory Board, the Texas Business and Education obtained her Masters of Secondary Coalition (TBEC) STEM Action Team, the UTeach Steering Education. Committee, the Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) STEM Educator Standards Committee, TEA Math TEKS PD Advisory For the past five years, Deborah has taught a variety of Board, E3 Alliance College and Career Success Leadership classes in Round Rock Independent School District (Texas), Team, and NSF’s Texas Girls Collaborative Project Champions including IB computer science, AP computer science, and Board. independent studies in Computer Applications. She also has sponsored several clubs, including the Texas Alliance of Minority Engineers, the National Technical Honor Society, Computer Science Club, Skills USA, and Computer Closing Plenary: School 2.0: Applications UIL, all in hopes of recruiting more girls into computer science and engineering. In 2015, Deborah was Creating the Schools We Need awarded a $5,000 grant from IBM to engage more girls in computer science. She was also recently nominated and unanimously appointed to the boards of TAME (Texas CHRIS LEHMANN Alliance of Minority Engineers) and ACET (Alliance of Computing Educators of Texas). She is the vice president of Chris Lehmann is the founding TACSE (Texas Alliance of Computer Science Education), which principal of Science Leadership is the CSTA chapter of Central Texas, and she is the 2015 Academy, an inquiry-driven, project- and 2016 recipient of the National Center for Women in based modern high school in Technology Educator Award for the Austin Affiliate. Deborah Philadelphia. The school is the first was selected as one of the top 100 Computer Science Dell Center of Excellence, was named teachers in the country and invited to attend the Hour of one of the Ten Most Amazing Schools Code in the White House in 2014. by Ladies Home Journal, was featured in the PBS documentary Digital Media: New Learners for the 21st Century, and CAROL FLETCHER: PANEL MODERATOR has been written about in publications including Edutopia Magazine, EdWeek and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Dr. Carol Fletcher is the Deputy Director of the Center for STEM In 2014, Chris won the McGraw Prize in Education. In Education at UT Austin, where she 2013, he was named Outstanding Leader of the Year by manages the day-to-day operations of the International Society of Technology in Education. In a statewide professional development 2012, Chris was named one of Dell’s #Inspire100, one of program for STEM teachers (the TRC), 100 people changing the world using social media. And in serving more than 9,000 educators 2011, Chris was honored by the White House as a Champion annually through 57 projects involving of Change. In 2013, Chris co-founded Inquiry Schools and all 20 Texas Education Service Centers, serves as chair of its board. Chris has spoken at many 40+ colleges and universities, and 800+ conferences, including TEDxPhilly, TEDxNYED, SXSW and school districts. Carol has also been elected to five terms on ISTE. Chris is co-editor of What School Leaders Need to Know the Pflugerville ISD Board of Trustees since 2001, serving as about Digital Technologies and Social Media, author of the Board President for five years. blog Practical Theory, and dad to Jakob and Theo. Carol is active in legislative and school finance issues as well as issues related to STEM education and school accountability. Her experiences as a teacher, policymaker, parent, and university administrator result in a unique perspective on the challenges and potential solutions our country faces regarding STEM education and workforce development. She has served in numerous leadership roles that bridge the gap between education, workforce, 4 FEATURED SPEAKERS Tuesday, May 24 FSU-TEACH GRADUATES IN THE CLASSROOM: AN 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration INDUCTION REPORT ANALYSIS Ellen Granger, Director, office of Science teaching activitieS, floriDa State REGISTRATION | LEVEL 2 univerSity Sherry Southerland, co-Director, fSu-teach, floriDa State univerSity 11:00 a.m. FSU-Teach induction program provides teaching supplies, curricula, NCTM/NSTA membership, etc. to graduates. Importantly, graduates are visited twice a year by STUDENT ORIENTATION | 203 master teachers for their first two years of teaching. For UTeach students only! Join us for a student orientation This presentation is an analysis of common threads from from 11:00 am to 11:45 am. We will have lunch afterward in observations of our graduates’ teaching as recorded in The Carillon, including a welcome from the National Math induction visit reports. This analysis provides a classroom and Science Initiative. snapshot of FSU-Teach teachers early in the profession and is a first step toward data collection on this topic. 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Opening Plenary UTEACH ACADEMY OF INNOVATIVE TEACHING AND OPENING PLENARY: COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR ALL | LEARNING: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR K-12 STEM BALLROOM EDUCATORS| 102 Carol Fletcher,