fyi!
On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 9:11:37 PM UTC-8, sameers wrote:
>
> Hi -
>
> A group of us went to present at Castlemont recently and when I mentioned
> this to the folks at a meeting of the CSTA that I attended, their president
> introduced me to someone who's looking for help in recruiting a CS teacher
> for an after school program.
>
> Here are more details - pls email me if you have questions - the program
> is at Dewey Academy, and the schedule is:
>
> 1. Monday: 2-3p
> 2. Wednesday: 1230p-110p
> 3. Friday: 2-3p
>
> They are open to a group from Open Oakland attending to check the class
> out, even if we aren't going to apply for the job. Let me know and I'd love
> to co-ordinate a visit.
>
> Students receive grades that are decided based 65% on attendance and 35%
> at the instructor's discretion, once every 6 weeks. Dewey is a continuation
> high school <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_high_school>, so
> your students don't necessarily stay through the entire 6 weeks, though
> they have to in order to get a grade. You can decide your curriculum and
> pace entirely on your own. The current instructor, Seema Sharma, is a math
> high school teacher, and taught herself Alice
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_%28programming_language%29>, an
> instructional programming language to teach the kids. She has also used
> material from CodeHS.com.
>
> The program is run by EBAYC <http://www.ebayc.org/>, where the program
> manager of the after school program is Brooklyn Williams. She'll probably
> be responsible for hiring. I can also get you in touch with Seema.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sameer.
>
>
