Siena University CSforAll
Leveraging synergistic opportunities inherent in college-high school partnerships to address shared problems of practice while building community among CS educators.
Leveraging synergistic opportunities inherent in college-high school partnerships to address shared problems of practice while building community among CS educators.
The Siena CSforAll team is committed to broadening participation in engaging high school computer science classes in New York State. One of the biggest obstacles to offering high school CS classes is finding qualified teachers. To address this problem, we have worked with high school teachers from over 50 school districts who are certified in other subject areas and often have little or no background in CS, preparing them to teach CS at their high schools. We provide teachers with full CS curriculums and professional development (PD) so that they can offer three Siena University dual-enrollment courses. We also created and host a complete curriculum for the full year high school level Discovering CS course. We support pathways to NYS teacher CS certification, one for pre-service and one for in-service teachers. Our CS educators community is enriched by Siena University's annual high school programming contest and the NY-Capital District CSTA chapter.
Through this programming, we have built a sustainable professional learning community of CS high school and university educators that engage with each other regularly in a variety of contexts as they work towards the shared goal of improving and broadening CS education. We are studying the impact of these programs to determine how school districts and colleges can best work together to advance the teaching of CS in the high school classroom. For more details on these activities, see the sidebar menu.
This material is based upon work that was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number (#1923378).
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Last updated May 2026.