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Dates	Activity
Computer Science as a K-12 discipline
	Overview and Objectives Welcome Video
June 10	Computer Science vs. Computer Literacy/Fluency
June 11	The CS Framework
June 12	The CS Standards for Students
June 13	Understanding CS Education in Iowa
June 14	Competency Demo (Due in Blackboard by 6/16)
Methods for teaching CS
	Overview and Objectives Weekly Overview video
June 17	CS Specific Teaching Methods, readings
June 18	CS Specific Teaching Methods, writings
June 19	Connecting Standards to teaching methods
June 20	Connecting Good Practices to teaching methods
June 21	Competency Demo (Due 6/23)
Curriculum Design
	Overview and Objectives
June 24	Curriculum Design and Grading, readings
June 25 and 26	Initial Course Design Document (Counts as a CD. You should have this with you at the CoP on Friday)
June 27	Considering existing curriculum
June 28	CoP #1 - CS Standards for Teachers and initial group meetings
CS Professionalism
	Overview and Objectives
July 1	The CS Standards for Teachers
July 2	CSTA
July 3	Educator Resources
July 4 and 5	Holiday
Course Design Project
	Overview and Objectives Project explanation video
July 8-12	Project: Audience and Outcomes (Includes Individual CD)
July 12	CoP #2
July 15-19	Project: Overall Assessment and Schedule (Includes Individual CD)
July 22-26	Project: Sample Learning Activities and Lessons (Includes Individual CD)
July 29 - Aug 2	Project: Sample Assessment and Grading Policies (Includes Individual CD)
Aug 2	CoP #3 - Your Team's Final Design Project is Presented