Would your students enjoy exploring datasets or
making simple videogames as part of learning
math, science, or social studies?
Consider a Bootstrap professional
development workshop this July!
Bootstrap provides curricular modules for integrating data science and math-aligned coding activities into middle- and high-school math and science classes (data science can also be used in social studies). We’re one of the nation’s largest and longest-running projects on integrating computing with other disciplines. We’re rated Accomplished by STEMWorks, a national assessor of STEM-oriented curricular outreach projects.
Our professional development workshops assume no prior computing experience from teachers. Our materials use concepts from mathematical modeling and data analysis, which we express in small amounts of code, to complete hands-on projects. Our workshops teach you the modeling, data analysis, and computing needed for these projects. Most of our teachers are new to computing, data analysis, and modeling, and leave PD surprised by what they can do.
Teachers have used our materials in many ways: put them at the beginning of the year to get students re-engaged in learning, integrate them into regular lessons to reinforce math concepts or deepen studies through data, use the projects at the end of the year to help students apply what they’ve learned while exposing them to computing. Our team will help you figure out what will work best for you and your students.
Bootstrap: Algebra (modeling): July 19-23, 10:30 – 4:30 EST, $750 per teacher
Bootstrap: Data Science: July 26-30, 10:30 – 4:30 EST, $750 per teacher
Registration opens April 28 at: https://www.bootstrapworld.org/workshops/
The two workshops are independent content-wise. Each consists of two 2.5-hour sessions each day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Sessions will combine short instructional segments and small-group work (in Zoom and Zoom breakout rooms).Participants will need internet access and a device (e.g., computer, laptop, Chromebook) sufficient for engaging with video in Zoom calls, participating in an online discussion forum, and using a programming tool within a web browser. Links will be provided prior to the workshop.
The workshop fee includes all teaching materials, an initial set of student paper-and-pencil workbooks, and long-term support from Bootstrap staff and fellow teachers.
Visit our website (www.bootstrapworld.org) to learn more about us and see our materials. Send questions to contact@bootstrapworld.org.