We are working hard to get ready for our magnet’s 1st big Epic Build Day. We are planning to share our work with computer science with the public, and classrooms are about halfway into their projects. I wanted to give a small preview of what you can expect to see! Here’s a break down of …
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It’s Time to Face Facts
Like it or not, it’s time change what we expect students to learn in school. More and more reports come out everyday that explain how important it is for educators to focus on making sure that we are not developing skills that will be automated in the near future. Recently, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) …
Hiding in Plain Sight
This week, I wanted to share a little bit more about our school’s overall focus on computer science. It is easy to get lost in the fact that it is easy to see our students learning to code, but often the deeper connections of computer science get lost. At CSIS@SES, we are interested in doing …
Big Week for CSIS
This week marks a big step forward for the progress of our school-wide magnet program. We are taking computer science instruction into every classroom. Teachers are beginning to teach integration units across all grade levels. We have a wide variety of projects that will be started this week. Some grade level are integrating math, some …
Help Improve Our Program
Community support is critical to the success of any school program, so everyone here at Sandlapper is interested in developing partnerships with those in our community that are interested in taking computer science to the next level for our students. We have a number of ways for you to support our program with your service. …
You are Cordially Invited!
We are currently working on our projects for our first Epic Build. All students at Sandlapper are learning to develop programs using Scratch, a block-based computer language. We would love to have lots of parents and community members join us for our big celebration on Nov. 1st. If you are interested in coming, please contact …
First Coaching Visit
This past Friday marked a big milestone for our magnet program. We have officially begin integrating computer science across the school. Through our partnership with Code to the Future, we will receive weekly coaching support. Our school’s coach, Mrs. Campbell, made her visit series of classroom visits. We decided to start with youngest Coding Stars …
Careers in CS
In the next 10 years, the US Labor and Stats bureau anticipates a large increase in careers in Computer Science. To best prepare students for this future, our school chooses to develop an early focus on the skills required for these high paying and high demand career fields. Our goal is to help students realize …
Why Computer Science?
One of the first questions we hear about our program is “why?” There are two answers to this. One, careers in CS are going to grow greatly in the next decade, and there will be a high demand for trained people to take these high paying jobs. Two, teaching CS develops 21st Century job skills …
Who We Are
We are Richland Two’s newest and only elementary magnet school for computer science. We are a school-wide magnet focused on Computer Science Integration. We are CSIS@SES. View the presentation below to learn more about our program.
Computer Science Immersion School @ Sandlapper Elementary School 