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 CodeHS Back to School Guide

Welcome back to school! Check out the Back to School Guide to help you get set up and prepared for a year of teaching with CodeHS. I want to specifically highlight the Week Zero Lesson Plans. These lessons are perfect for building a strong classroom culture at the start of the year, and they have been recently updated to include some great middle school lessons. These are some lessons that we recommend:

• [NEW!] Computational Thinking
• Growth Mindset
• [NEW!] Block Coding Instruction

Updated Intro to Programming with Karel (Ace) Course

Over the summer, we released an updated version of Intro to Programming with Karel (Ace)! This course is mostly the same, but it now includes more current programming practices and is better aligned to our JavaScript courses. This will be helpful for those students looking to take a full year JavaScript course in the future.

Here is a quick overview of the changes:

• ES6 updates: Students will use let instead of var in for loops.
• Students will use the main() function instead of the start() function.
• There are some additional debugging and reflection activities to better support students as they are learning to debug their code.

Upcoming PD Webinars and Workshops

We’re hosting a variety of free webinars for Back to School! Be sure to check out the full calendar of events including:

• Getting Started Teaching with CodeHS: Tuesday, Sept. 3rd from 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm CT
• Creating Your Own Course: Thursday, Sept. 5th from 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm CT

Interdisciplinary Courses

Help students make connections between Computer Science and other subjects through Interdisciplinary Courses! Many of these are designed to be completed in 10 hours or less and include fun topics such as Coding in Sports and Coding in Art.

NEW: Teacher Collaboration Tool

The new Collaboration tool allows teachers to collaborate with students on assignments! With this new tool, you can watch student progress as they work, debug code with students, and demonstrate coding concepts within student assignments- all from your computer! This tool is available on CodeHS Pro.

CodeHS Quick Find

Looking for a specific student or your favorite tool? Try the Quick Find tool to search your CodeHS account. Click on the Quick Find tool in the left hand navigation bar, or press CMD+K on Mac or CTRL+K on Windows to launch the search bar.

​Stay Connected 

Cheers,
Rachel Devaney
​Curriculum Developer, CodeHS

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