1. Read this presentation online at
brbytes.org

2. LSU STEM Certification Pathways

3. Increase the number of Louisiana students who take quality STEM courses in high school
Create a pathway for ALL students
Build teacher STEM experts
Design quality STEM curriculum
STEM Pathways Vision
Before we get into the Computing Pathway, I want to take a step back and show you how it fits into the bigger picture in the state of Louisiana, and how we’ve been able to use it to grow high quality STEM courses in the state. We were tasked by the state to develop a series of courses along several pathways that would increase the number of students taking high quality STEM courses in high school. We did this by focusing on these three components: building teacher stem content, design quality stem curriculum, and creating a pathway that is accessible to all students.

4. TOPS University Diploma
Jumpstart
Diploma
TOPS University Diploma
How did we get started? In 2013 LDOE, EBRPSS, Lee High and LSU partnered to create academies for the new Lee High that would bring high quality STEM courses to the classroom. We were challenged to create courses that met the needs of both Jumpstart students and high performing college bound students.

5. Digital Design & Emergent Media Computational Thinking
Pre-Engineering
Digital Design & Emergent Media
Computing
Biomedical Sciences
Computational Thinking
and
21st Century Skills

6. Haskell Pre-Engineering: Arduino & VEXCode (C/C++)
Digital Design & Emergent Media:
Javascript & Arduino
COMPUTING:
Scratch, Python, JavaScript, R, Java, C/C++
Biomedical Sciences:
Arduino & R
Functional Programming:
Haskell
Learn - Abstraction, Logic, Effect of Code

7. 16-17: EBR (1), Lee High
17-18: EBR (3), Central, Iberville, Jefferson, Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana
18-19: EBR (8), Ascension (4), Baker, Central, Iberville, Jefferson (2) , Lafayette, Pointe Coupee, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Martinville, Washington, West Feliciana, Rapides (1), Charter (1), Private (3)
19-20: EBR (8), Ascension (4), Baker, Calcasieu, Central, Evangeline, Iberville (2), Jefferson (2), Lafayette, Livingston, Orleans, Pointe Coupee, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Landry, St. Martin, Washington, West Feliciana, Rapides, Richland, Charter (2), Private (3)
How many schools? How many parishes?

8. WHY DO A PATHWAY? $482/student
Accountability points for IBC and DE courses
School/ District
Graduate credit opportunity
Teaching leading edge STEM courses, non- EOC
Microcredentials
Teachers
High quality STEM courses
PBL, highlighting 21st century skills
Silver/Gold STEM Endorsement Opportunity
Students

9. WHO TEACHES THE PATHWAYS?
ANYBODY!!! Must have a passion to learn!
Experienced teachers, non technical or technical
Novice teachers
Optional Math Praxis Prep

10. HOW TO DO LSU PATHWAYS? 3 or 6 week intensive training
$1,920 - $3,840 per teacher
District responsible for any additional stipend

11. Contact Information
Overall program: Frank Neubrander
Suiting to program and school that is appropriate to interest
PreEng – Vanessa Begat
DDEM – Anthony Marasco or Dr. Jesse Allison
Computing – Fernando Alegre
BioMed – Stephen Kampen

12. The LSU Computing Pathway
Approved by BESE in August 2019
1 Course (ICT) in its 3rd year
3 Courses piloting this year ( )
3 Courses will start in
Support by NSF and USDoE started Oct 2019

13. Gold and Silver Endorsements
Silver: Need 4 Pathway core courses
Gold: Need 4 additional courses
Either Pathway courses,
Or allowed electives

14. Gold and Silver Endorsements
Silver: Need 4 Pathway core courses
Introduction to Computational Thinking
Programming Core
Networks and Society Core
Applications of Computing Core

15. Gold and Silver Endorsements
Silver: Need 4 Pathway core courses
Introduction to Computational Thinking
Cornerstone of Pathway
Counts for all LSU STEM Pathways
Counts for other Pathways (NICERC)

16. Gold and Silver Endorsements
Silver: Need 4 Pathway core courses
Programming Core
Data Manipulation & Analysis
Programming for STEM

17. Gold and Silver Endorsements
Silver: Need 4 Pathway core courses
Networks and Society Core
Cybersecurity and Networking
AP CS Principles

18. Gold and Silver Endorsements
Silver: Need 4 Pathway core courses
Applications of Computing Core
Interactive Computing
Survey of Computer Science

19. Gold and Silver Endorsements
Silver: Need 4 Pathway core courses
Gold: Need 4 additional courses
Either Pathway courses,
Or accepted electives

20. Gold and Silver Endorsements
Computing Courses
Interactive Computing
Cybersecurity
Data Manip. And Analysis
Programming for STEM/DM
Survey of Computer Sci.
TOPS Courses
AP CS Principles
AP CS A
Other AP
Physics
Calculus
Statistics
JumpStart Courses
CIW Network Security
COMPTIA+ (several)
Computer Service Technology
Computer Systems/Networking
Java Programming
Fund. of HTML, CSS and JS
Other Pathway Courses
Robotics
Bioinformatics
Coding for the Web
Videogame design

21. Light Programming Sequence Heavy Programming Sequence
Schools have choices
Light Programming Sequence
Heavy Programming Sequence
Survey of Computing
ICT
Interactive Computing
Cybersecurity
CSP
Data Manipulation and Analysis
Programming for STEM
Robotics
CSA

22. Intro to Computational Thinking
Focus on Fundamentals
Abstraction
Logical Thinking
Connections to Math and Science

23. Our Approach Code is an instructional tool Makes thoughts explicit
Reduces cognitive load
Provides metacognition
Curriculum exploits parallelism between math and coding
Think mathematically when looking at code
See code as an extension of regular math
Use computational thinking when doing math

24. Connections to Math and Science
Variables and functions
Order of operations
Modeling
Data dependency
Coordinates
Geometric transformations
Data visualization
Random effects
Calculations (areas, averages, taxes, discounts)

25. Sample Student Work
(Microscope)
(Water Cycle)
(Arduino)
(Lunar Eclipse)
(Solar System)
(combustion engine)

26. Sample Student Work
(leaf diagram)
(atom)
(water cycle)
(cell)
(DNA)
(lungs)

27. Let us Create a Star Triangle 4-point star Add function Generalize
Add variables
Generalize

28. Let us Create a Star
Live Demo
Extension

29. Questions?

31. Other Electives (TOPS only)
LSU Computing Electives (Required for Jumpstart, Optional for TOPS)
Core Courses (Required for JumpStart and TOPS STEM Endorsement)
Intro to Computational Thinking
Programming CORE
Networks and Society CORE
Applications of Computing CORE
Cybersecurity
Interactive Computing
Data Manipulation and Analysis
Survey of Computer Science
AP Calculus, Statistics
AP/DE/II: Physics
AP Computer Science A/P
Electives from other pathways
Other Approved Electives
TOPS Choose 4 from either category
4 Core Science