Micro-Credential Program
Micro-Credentials Program
The micro-credential program contains a collection of independent, self-paced courses designed for educators seeking to dig deeper into specific CS professional learning topics.
The program supports educators who are interested in exploring resources and opportunities to expand CS education, whether as stand-alone classes or by integrating CS concepts and practices into other content-area instruction. In each course, participants will explore relevant CS resources and develop a standards-aligned lesson activity and/or action plan to expand CS learning opportunities for their students.
Participants may enroll in multiple courses based on their interests and availability. They are not expected to register for all courses or complete them in sequential order. Participants will receive Act 48 credit hours for each course in which they complete all course activities. All credit will be awarded at the end of the program term.
Click here to learn more about the program and register. Registration is now open and ongoing for the following courses in our Micro-credential Program.
- AI in the Classroom: Introduction (2-hour)
- AI in the Classroom: Integrating AI to Support Student Learning (4- hour)
- Cybersecurity in the K-8 classroom: Introduction (2-hour)
- Using Music to Engage Students in CS Learning (4-hour)
- Empowering all students in CS Learning through a Behavioral approach (4-hour)
Pennsylvania K-12 Computer Science Engagement
These sortable databases contain all computer science courses reported in PIMS for the previous academic years. LEAs are highly encouraged but not required to report CS course-taking data. Data Dashboard is soon to be released!
Analysis Tools
The tools listed below are to support with anaylzing the data.
- CS Course Data Analysis Worksheet (PaTTAN)
This worksheet is designed to help educators to compare the demographics of their CS courses to the overall enrollment of their school. This worksheet makes it easy to identify equity gaps in CS courses and hopefully, leads to efforts to close such gaps.
A collection of resources that may be used to promote intentional equity.
National report about the state of computer science education and the disparities that were heightened due the COVID-19 pandemic.
Code.org data from 2020 that can be used to advocate for equitable CS education.
- Bridging the CS Access Gap (2016 Education Commission of the States)
Statistics on K-12 students’ participation in CS in the U.S.
Research on barriers to access and equitable participation in CS education.
Not all students have the opportunity to learn CS
While Pennsylvania K-12 engagement in CS has increased over the past three years, large gaps remain; less than 24% of students across the commonwealth participated in CS learning in the 2019-20 school year. Of the approximately 339,000 Pennsylvania students engaging in computer science courses K-12, less than 23% are students of color and less than 4% are English language learners.
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* Contains “at a glance” data for 2014 - 2017)
** First year to include K-6 CS data
In order to provide the best and most current resources and information, we continually revise our CSinPA Toolkits. You can contribute to the toolkit by submitting your questions, revisions, or resources using this form.