In the 2020-2021 school year, just 5.8% of Massachusetts high school students were enrolled in a computer science course. Expanding access to and participation in computer science in Massachusetts will require efforts at all levels of education to implement comprehensive CS education. As a resource to state educators, DESE created a guide to “provide curricular overviews for schools to engage students in learning of digital literacy and computer science (DLCS) concepts and skills aligned to the standards found in the 2016 Massachusetts DLCS Framework.” The guide compiles dozens of CS curricula by grade band, technology needs, professional development offerings, and costs. Below we highlight some curricula that have ‘comprehensive’ and low-cost curriculum materials.
- Computer Science Discoveries (guide pages 79 and 80). Code.org
- Foundations of Physical Computing: Lego Spike Prime (guide pages 91 and 92). LEGO Education
- Beauty and Joy of Computing (guide pages 115 and 116). University of California, Berkeley, and Education Development Center (EDC)
- Bootstrap: Data Science & Bootstrap: Algebra (guide pages 117 and 118). Brown University
- Code.org Computer Science Principles (guide pages 119 and 120). Code.org
