CS4All Equity

Drawing on pedagogies that recognize that differences should be treated as an asset for teaching and learning, the Equity Team works to build Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CR-SE) into CS4All’s core programming. Working collaboratively with academic experts and educators, we explore equity principles and directly apply a CR-SE framework* to CS.


“To be achieved and sustained, equity needs to be thought of as a structural and systemic concept, and not as idealistic.”  –NYS-CR-SE framework 

NEW EVENTS, RESOURCES
& FEATURED EDUCATORS

NEW RESOURCE

2023-2024 CS Pioneers Calendar!

The purpose of this calendar is to celebrate the accomplishments of past and present computer science pioneers, and specifically to highlight the work done by people from historically excluded groups.


We hope that these pioneers inspire your students and serve to remind them that anyone can be a computer scientist, regardless of race, gender, or (dis)ability.

NEW CLASSROOM RESOURCE

Black History Month Guidebook

As we celebrate Black History Month, the 2024 EECS - Black Affinity Community is proud to present a guidebook crafted to help you infuse this important observance into your curriculum. Within these pages, you'll find seven insightful topics designed to assist you in honoring Black lives while integrating Black history into your computer science classroom. Let's do this the right way! "

NEW UPCOMING EVENT

Fireside chat with Dr Bettina Love

Tuesday March 19th from 6:30 to 8:00pm (est) 


New York Times best selling author and academic Bettina L. Love in conversation with CS4All and NYCMT. A conversation about abolitionist teaching, anti-racism, Hip Hop education, Black girlhood, queer youth, educational reparations, and the use of art-based education to foster youth civic engagement. 

NEW FEATURED REPORT

The CS4All Equity Initiative:
Successes, Challenges & What’s Next 

Did you miss our Equity Impact Report Release event? Check out the video and download the short report to learn more about our work– including Exploring Equity in CS, a multi-year professional learning intervention.  


NEW RESOURCE

Anti-Racist Toolkit & Resources 

A very comprehensive list of Anti-Racist Resources, for educators.   

The compilation resources are organized by Toolkits, booklists, resources for parents and specific resources for different racial affinity groups. Additionally, this includes list of medical, research and trainings organizations.

NEW RESOURCE

Streaming Access to The
Award-winning Film Coded Bias

Shalini Kantayya's Coded Bias is “an exploration into the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's discovery of racial bias in facial recognition algorithms”. 

Fill out this form to request access to the streaming link and password.

If you’ve seen the film, check out the Coded Bias Educational Discussion Guide.