*Hello everyone! At PyCon 2018, I hosted a PSF + Educators space to propose the question of what can the PSF do for educators. That session turned into a general discussion on things the community can do. These are the takeaways.Being worked on. These are things that people are working on after the discussion. Not sure who is working on what though. Please identify yourselves on the list if others want to reach you! 1. Use edu-sig as the jumping off point for communication2. Jackie will bring back notes from conversation to the PSF board to both inform and discuss possibilities3. Educating Teachers ---1. Adding teaching training for regional conferences -- although it is short notice, this is first being tried for PyOhio2. Can we do educators track? Maybe not make the summit on the day before, Workshop day & talk day?4. Create talking points / Press packet1. Starting locally to converse with people and find out the needs for a curriculum 1. Akron, OH is restructuring curriculum.5. PyEducators created -- https://github.com/ehmatthes/pyeducators <https://github.com/ehmatthes/pyeducators> 6. Create an inventory of resources - This will not be the end all be all, but a jumping off point for curation. It has to start somewhere thought. - K-5, 6-8, 9-12, and Adult & Setting: Class, Library, after school- List of organizations, people, etc- List of books- ^^ Will be explored by a student in Library Science as an independent study- I *believe* this is under PyEducators, but I am uncertainNot being worked on. These are things that came up in discussion that are not explicitly being worked on at this time. If you would like to help lead one of these things, please speak up. Also, please note, that just because it was discussed it doesn't mean it will ever happen, so let's not bike shed these points please. - “Can the PSF have an educational resources page? We all don’t know what is out there.”- “We can connect technology folks with teachers.”- https://software-carpentry.org/ <https://software-carpentry.org/> <-- “We get the most requests for Python, but our lessons need love.”- Should we have a lobby arm? - Get rid of IDLE. Add Mu. Can the PSF get Mu in standard library?- Python booth at teacher conferences- Get a full-time educator on PSF staff, paid for a grant just to support thisPlease let me know if I missed anything. I am sure I did. Also, let me know if my notes don't make sense.*
-Jackie -- Jacqueline Kazil | @jackiekazil
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