<div dir="ltr">fyi! <br><br>On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 9:11:37 PM UTC-8, sameers wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi -<br><br></div>A group of us went to present at Castlemont recently and when I mentioned this to the folks at a meeting of the CSTA that I attended, their president introduced me to someone who's looking for help in recruiting a CS teacher for an after school program.<br><br>Here are more details - pls email me if you have questions - the program is at Dewey Academy, and the schedule is:<br><ol><li>Monday: 2-3p</li><li>Wednesday: 1230p-110p</li><li>Friday: 2-3p</li></ol><p>They are open to a group from Open Oakland 
attending to check the class out, even if we aren't going to apply for 
the job. Let me know and I'd love to co-ordinate a visit.</p><p>Students
 receive grades that are decided based 65% on attendance and 35% at the 
instructor's discretion, once every 6 weeks. Dewey is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_high_school" target="_blank" onmousedown="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FContinuation_high_school\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNFXqMdm6VEDm6J8iT8Ni7eY9PQ5hA';return true;" onclick="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FContinuation_high_school\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNFXqMdm6VEDm6J8iT8Ni7eY9PQ5hA';return true;">continuation high school</a>,
 so your students don't necessarily stay through the entire 6 weeks, 
though they have to in order to get a grade. You can decide your 
curriculum and pace entirely on your own. The current instructor, Seema 
Sharma, is a math high school teacher, and taught herself <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_%28programming_language%29" target="_blank" onmousedown="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAlice_%2528programming_language%2529\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNH6UloBFf7fmHXC1t5fP_RAaxVBpA';return true;" onclick="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAlice_%2528programming_language%2529\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNH6UloBFf7fmHXC1t5fP_RAaxVBpA';return true;">Alice</a>, an instructional programming language to teach the kids. She has also used material from <a href="http://CodeHS.com" target="_blank" onmousedown="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2FCodeHS.com\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNEjnd2LFElcaVUnzDKP9tuzJbbuZQ';return true;" onclick="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2FCodeHS.com\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNEjnd2LFElcaVUnzDKP9tuzJbbuZQ';return true;">CodeHS.com</a>.<br></p><p>The program is run by <a href="http://www.ebayc.org/" target="_blank" onmousedown="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebayc.org%2F\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNGUyAZFjoF9p0kxkrVLDXk2npedfw';return true;" onclick="this.href='http://www.google.com/url?q\75http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebayc.org%2F\46sa\75D\46sntz\0751\46usg\75AFQjCNGUyAZFjoF9p0kxkrVLDXk2npedfw';return true;">EBAYC</a>,
 where the program manager of the after school program is Brooklyn 
Williams. She'll probably be responsible for hiring. I can also get you 
in touch with Seema.</p><p>Regards,</p><p>Sameer.</p><br></div>
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