September 2020 Newsletter
 

What is included: 
Content for Members
Membership Renewal
Calendar Updates
Welcome to Fall 2020
Welcome to Fall 2020! We hope this finds all of you staying safe and keeping well during this challenging year. Due to the pandemic, we will be holding our meetings in Zoom until it becomes safe to resume physical meetings.
Meeting Schedule

Please mark your calendars for the following Tuesday evenings when we will hold meetings of the CSTA Delaware Chapter. All of these meetings take place from 7:30 PM until 9 PM.

  • October 6, 2020

  • December 1, 2020

  • February 2, 2021

  • April 13, 2021

In addition to these local chapter meetings, the national CSTA hosts events you may also wish to attend. Follow this link to see the CSTA National Events Calendar.
Renew Your CSTA Credentials
All members of CSTA Delaware need to renew your memberships by following this link to https://www.csteachers.org/page/individual-membership. As you will see, you can join totally for free, or you can pay $50 annually to become a CSTA+ member.
Join the Delaware Chapter of CSTA
After you renew your membership in the National CSTA, please be sure to join the CSTA Delaware Chapter. There is no additional charge for joining the Delaware Chapter.
Goal-Setting Grant
The national CSTA has awarded us a goal-setting grant in order to facilitate discussion of our chapter’s 2020-2021 goals. The grant pays for $100 worth of food that we will consume during our next meeting. Due to the pandemic, we will use online services, such as Dominos, to distribute these refreshments.
Call for Officer Candidates
The CSTA Delaware Chapter holds elections annually for its officers. Please nominate yourself or one of your colleagues to serve. Send nominations to one of the existing officers by emailing kammas.kersch@gmail.com, Colleen.Hoban@colonial.k12.de.us, or fth@udel.edu.
CSTA COVID Page
The CSTA has created an excellent page full of resources for dealing with the pandemic, including links to online learning tools, PD, and mindfulness resources to keep grounded during these uncertain times. To peruse these valuable resources, follow this link to the CSTA COVID Page.
CSTA 2020 Conference Recordings
CSTA+ members have access to video recordings of the sessions presented at the CSTA 2020 Conference. There are curated recordings of each keynote and session with access to the slides for most sessions. These videos include the CSTA 2020 keynote address delivered by Code.org founder and CEO Hadi Partovi, who spoke on the past, present, and future of computer science education.