Faced with an Indiana mandate that required districts to offer computer science, the Metropolitan School District of Pike Township decided to expand a popular summer enrichment course into a districtwide computer science curriculum for all K-5 students. As the district’s technology integration specialist, I knew that this rapid program expansion wasn’t going to be easy. Our urban, majority-minority district has 11,000 students who speak 87 different languages. But I also knew that integrating computer science curriculum would be worth it.
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