What do we mean by "for all"?

Where is CS taught in Washington?

Our community partners with ECEP and OSPI to produce data that gives us visibility into who has access to CS education, who engages in it, and most importantly, who does not. This supplements OSPI's annual report on K-12 CS student engagement.

Across the state, the trends are clear:

• Many schools and districts are not offering CS courses at all

• Most students in CS classes are White and Asian boys.

• Most teachers are white and most are men.

See below for a few different ways of examining data in your region of Washington.

Exploring Computing Education Pathways data

The data below is gathered in coordination with OSPI, and produced by ECEP. It provides a nationwide view using the same data standad, allowing us to compare across states. Data lags by one year, but is likely the most accurate data pull, as the OSPI data team conducts the queries and cleans the data before providing to ECEP, and ensures it is in accordinance with the state definition of computer science.

CSTA data

The data below is compiled by Lawrence Tanimoto from CSTA Washington, using data requests from OSPI. They've be doing ongoing work to curate state data and present it in Tableau. It may differ in multiple ways from the ECEP data above, because the data definitions Lawrence uses are not equivalent to the ECEP data. This provides a more detailed view than the one above as well.

NOTE: The word "Demo" appears on these because Lawrence is using these dashboards for other purposes and audiences for demonstration purposes, not because the data is incomplete or inaccurate.

Are there resources for broadening participation computing?

Many:

• The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) has many resources for systematically engaging girls in CS education.

• The National Girls Collaborative Project has many resources for engaging girls in CS education.

• AccessComputing has an extensive knowledge base of strategies for supporting youth with disabilities.

• Microsoft has a guide for inclusive CS teaching.

• IGNITE Worldwide partners with teachers and companies to inspire girls and non-binary students to pursue CS.

These resources largely focus on recruitment and retention strategies that engage and successfully teach excluded students.