Sponsored by the NSF CPATH Program (Harriet Taylor) with additional support from Boots Cassel Organized by the ACM Education Board Purpose: To involve the professional societies in computing in coordinating efforts to address the challenges facing computing education Organizing Committee: Mark Guzdial, Jane Prey, Heikki Topi, Joe Urban (Texas Tech, former NSF)

To develop a shared understanding of the challenges facing computing education, To define strategies for addressing those challenges, and To plan collective action to improve the future of computing education.

ACM Ed Board ACM SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) ACM SIGITE (Special Interest Group on Information Technology Education) AIS (Association for Information Systems) ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) Bookey Consulting (Writing) CRA (Computing Research Association) CSTA (Computer Science Teachers Association) IEEE Computer Society NCWIT (National Center for Women and Information Technology) NSF (National Science Foundation) SIM (Society for Information Management) SRI International Texas Tech University The iSchools’ iCaucus

Each organization prepared a position paper before the meeting, addressing questions like: o What is the mission of your organization? o How does your organization influence computing education? o What do you see as the most significant three challenges facing computing education in order to achieve the goals that your organization wants for computing education? o If all the groups coming to this meeting got behind a common goal or strategy, what would you suggest that it would be? These were distributed electronically before the meeting, physically in person.

Three rounds of breakouts: o Challenges: to come to a common definition of the challenges, drawn from the position papers and from the participants’ experience. o Strategies: to identify which challenges can be addressed using the given strategy, and to identify possible action items. o Action items: to identify concrete actions to be performed by these groups to implement the strategies.

Action Items were claimed as “Owner” or “Participant”

1. To establish the Coalition for Advancing Computing Education. To creation of a new entity (umbrella organization or center) to provide several functions to promote computing education: speaking with a united front, clearinghouse of computing education ideas and resources, “ultimately accountable for computing education.” Convener: Tom Hilburn of IEEE CS Owners: IEEE CS, NCWIT, ACM Ed Board and Council Participants: Ensemble, SIGCSE, CSTA, CRA, ASEE, SIGITE

2. To organize a committee of organization representatives to write a white paper on the top five research questions to advance computing education. Convener: John Unsworth of iSchools Owners: iSchools, ACM Education Board and Council Participants: iSchools, ACM Education Board, Ensemble, SIGCSE, CRA, SIGITE, SIM

3. Identify, develop, and centralize resources. Identify what resources, messages, research, etc. already exist. Develop talking points resources to inform faculty about appropriate messages. Build a repository of resources, examples stories on message, templates, posters, links, and press releases. Convener: AIS Owners: NCWIT, ASEE, AIS Participants: Ensemble, SIGCSE, SIGITE, NCWIT, ASEE, CSTA, iSchools, AIS

4. Develop mini-grants for teachers (maybe for curriculum development) so local press has a reason to write about computing and bring positive attention to the school districts. Convener: NCWIT Owners: NCWIT, ASEEE Participants: NCWIT, ASEEE Note: NCWIT already gives teacher aspiration awards.

5. Urge funders to support collaborative ventures and strategic partnerships. Convener: Dave Chatterjee of SIM Owners: SIM Participants: CSTA, IEEE-CS and ACM Ed Board (ACM Education Policy Council) 6. Engage industry to collaborate in computing work with faculty and students. Convener: Dave Chatterjee of SIM Owners: SIM Participants: SIM, iSchools

7. Develop a study by a representative group in industry of what they need/want in computing student preparation: Convener: Hans Reichgelt of SIGITE Owners: SIGITE Participants: SIM, Ensemble, IEEE-CS, NCWIT, SIGITE 8. Initiate recognition of pedagogical achievement, such as best paper, best education resources, etc. Convener: ASEE Owners: ASEE, IEEE-CS Participants: ASEE, Ensemble, IEEE-CS, SIGCSE, SIGITE, AIS, iSchools

9. Gather data about experiences on dual track tenure lines (research and teaching). Convener: SIGSCE Owners: SIGSCE Participants: SIGSCE, AIS, iSchools 10. Survey non-major’s computing courses, get reviews and find exemplars; survey general education schemes for including computing. Convener: SIGSCE Owners: SIGSCE Participants: SIGSCE, IEEE-CS, NCWIT, CSTA, CRE

Agreed on Quarterly Report backs (most likely at relevant conferences, like SIGCSE) Plan is to have significant action on every Action Item within One Year.

Discussion o What do we want to see happen? o What inputs do we want to provide to the process? o How can we help? Output: o Presentation at report time. o Written notes, please! Discussion Groups: o The coalition for computing education [Heikki] o Top 5 research questions in CS education [Maggie] o Industry links [Andrew] o The "other action items" group [Mark]