Colleen Lewis

Make CS required for all to avoid students opting out without trying it.

Show off student projects to show students the variety of assignments

Recruit friend groups to expand participation to students who might not enroll, and encourage students to promote your class so students hear from peers that CS is cool.

Make it welcoming to make sure all students feel they belong

Educate counselors and teachers to help dispel myths about CS and who does CS.

Let students write "bad" code to let them apply abstraction to working code.

Use "and wait" blocks to use blocks that execute sequentially in Scratch.

Add sound blocks to Scratch code to help students reason about sequencing.

Use implicit then explicit variables to make creating new variables more intuitive.

Read code aloud to help students debug code by acting it out.

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