CSK5 State Summit Materials

 BootUp is dedicated to empowering elementary teachers and students through computer science and creating equitable computer science programs in underrepresented and underserved communities. Since 2015, BootUp has worked with almost 477 elementary schools impacting over 150,000 students, providing in-person professional development, coaching, and resources that prepare teachers to facilitate coding, computational thinking, and computer science instruction. Learn more here. 

The Software Engineering Program Junior (SEPjr) is a high-quality computer science program for kindergarten through fifth-grade students that balances rigorous and meaningful direct instruction with open-ended creative computing. CS4All also has Integrated CS Units for grades K-2 and 3-5.  All CS4All Elementary curriculum is posted publicly on the Blueprint website:

NYSED has awarded grant funds to 17 groups to assist in the professional development of K-8 teachers in their knowledge and expertise of the NYS Computer Science and Digital Fluency Learning Standards that were adopted in December 2020. Find a Smart Start project near your school here:

NYSCATE offers self-paced professional development with CTLE hours for educators on the NYS K-12 Computer Science and Digital Fluency Standards, including all the strands of the standards and ideas for integration into art, ELA, math, and science classes.