Hi, I’m Scott Merrick and I’m currently in between jobs after working for 6 years building the first virtual public school in Tennessee, MNPS Virtual School. I’ll not likely know where I am for sure until I walk into a school building for inservice August 1. That said, I previously taught computer technology to students in grades K-4 for 11 years at an independent school here in Nashville, having taught 3rd grade there for the previous 3 years.
I do a great deal of volunteer work for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and have been recognized as a Core Volunteer Leader for the past half-decade. I’m quite googlable (is that a word?) and you may feel free to google me at will.
Whatever I do this coming year, I hope to bring coding into it. I believe we need to change the way learning happens so that it is student led and teacher facilitated, and I’m looking into thought leaders’ proposals for making that happen. I wish us all luck!
I have a sign I’ve had in classrooms or my office for 20 years now, ever since my first 3rd graders found it with a treasure map the first week of school in 1996. It reads “Be Good and Have Fun.” I guess that’s my motto.
Hi! My name is Jacy Wolfe. I live in Mechanicsville, MD and will start working at Southern Maryland Christian Academy teaching 3rd grade in the fall. When I took a break from teaching to stay home with my 3 young children, my father-in-law had me doing secretarial duties for his construction business. He then asked me to work on updating the website that my brother-in-law had started. I really had no idea what I was doing but after some trial and error and finding some youtube videos on the matter, I was able to make some updates and have a nice display of photos of their construction work. I would really like to learn how to do it so that it makes sense to me and I can use it again later.
Hi. My name is Nancy. I teach 5th grade math in Lewisville, TX. I’m interested in learning about coding so that I am informed enough to make it an option for our students.
Twitter: leggn1
Hi! I’m Charlene. I teach special ed at the middle school level. I know absolutely nothing about coding except the practice Star Wars program on code.org that I worked on. This programming thing will be great to use as a reward for my students. They will love it. My hope is to learn more about it in order to introduce it to my students.
Hi, I’m Jessica. I live and work in NJ. I’m teaching 8-12 grade math and I want to integrate CS into my classes. I started “using” Code.org this summer, but I really don’t know what I’m doing. The kids like it, so I’m getting some training and going to present it more formally in the fall.
You can find everything you need at my website. I look forward to collaborating!
Hi all,
I’m Heather. I am a K-5 Gifted and Talented pull-out teacher at Harmony Science Academy in Katy, Texas. This year my principal has asked me to focus on coding and robotics for our GT curriculum. I am very excited but, like Jessica (above), I don’t really know what I’m doing! I’m looking forward to learning here on code.org as I’ve heard great things from other educators and I know students love working on this stuff.
Blessings to all as we work our way through this.
My name is Beth Baker. I teach 5th grade in a Title 1 school in Jasper, Alabama. I am also the sponsor of our tech team-and I am pretty clueless about technology but this is my second year to teach in this system so I am happy to do whatever I am asked to do!
I need to learn more so that I can help my students. For tech team this year, I hope to have students complete coding lessons on code.org. My tech team participates in a competition in the spring so I hope that I can guide them to create a competitive project and improve their knowledge of CS.
I am also responsible for teaching my class a computer lesson 1 hour each week. I want to teach the courses provided on code.org each week.
I have no formal training in CS-only the course that we were required to take as an undergraduate and that was in the 90’s.
I am on FB as Beth Brooks Baker.
My favorite ice cream is chocolate chip cookie dough.
Hi, my name is Kirsty and I teach a 2nd grade class in South Australia. I have no prior coding experience and have just completed the online course on studio.code.org. I am super excited to be introducing coding to my class during our weekly iPad lesson time and know that using studio code is going to excite and engage my students.
Hello Everyone! My name is Karen and I’m a school librarian near Richmond, VA. I started my library career in the public library system as a children’s/young adult librarian and then worked as a high school librarian for a couple of years before I decided to stay home and home-school my children. Now that my children are in college and leading adult lives, I’ve returned to my first love as an elementary school librarian. This year will be my third year at my school and I couldn’t be happier.
I’ve been wanting to take this course for some time and what better time than summer break?? I look forward to exchanging ideas and working toward completion of this course.
My name is Cindy Lewis. I am currently a teacher at Anna ISD in Anna, Texas. I am excited to be teaching 4th grade science and social studies. I feel that coding helps teach valuable 21st century skills and so I am thrilled to begin this journey to become more informed on how to teach these skills to my students. I love learning from others and so I look forward to seeing the ideas shared.
Join me on Twitter @clewis4ed.
I love all kinds of ice cream so it’s hard to pick a flavor. It really depends on my mood but I’d have to say peanut butter and chocolate is generally a favorite combination.
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My name’s Anna, I’m Italian.
I teach Italian to foreign student and English to Italians (mostly kindergarden and primary school children).
I’ve always been intrigue by coding and my five years-old daughter has a lot of fun with coding games so I decided to learn how to teach coding to children and with a brief search I’ve found this course.
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My name is Antionette Givan. I teach 5th grade at The Dufrocq School in Baton Rouge, LA. I will be in charge of Robotics, a new club, at my school this year. I was told that this is the place for my students ( and Me) to start our journey into the world of coding.This is so exciting! Oh, and my favorite ice cream is any flavor of Blue Bell.
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I am, at this point, just thinking about using the on line classes for my resource classes, 3-5.
This in my very first attempt at coding. I am feeling a bit nervous about teaching something I don’t know myself. Baby steps I guess.
Hi, my name is Kerry Romano. I live in Calvert County, Maryland and am an elementary school music teacher. I have absolutely no experience with code and am taking the course to learn more about it and to possibly incorporate what I learn into my music classes. My favorite flavor of ice cream is chocolate.
I am Gretchen Sting and I live in Medford, Nj. I work for Source for Learning, or TeachersFirst.com. I give professional development in webinars and coding is an area I want to know more about! My favorite ice cream is double chocolate fudge with chocolate sprinkles and whipped cream! Check out www.teachersfirst.com !
Hi, my name is Michelle Polley. I live in Fort Worth, TX. I teach 7th and 8th grade Technology Applications and High School Graphic Design and Audio Visual Production. I love Computer Science as I was a programmer before I decided to teach with Technology. I am interested in more resources and promoting Computer Science.
My name is Darlene O’Hearon. I am beginning my 26th year of teaching this fall. It is my first year teaching technology. I’m very interested in teaching and developing a curriculum map for teaching code to grades 2-5.
Hi My Name is Aida Martinez. I will be teaching PLTW Gateway Computer Science to all 8th Grade Students in our campus. I look forward to learning strategies and techniques that I can use in the classroom.
