Hey folks!
Here is a great opportunity to give back to the community. We know it’s not great timing, but perhaps if your finals end early, you’d have an hour or so to donate your time to help show some elementary school kids how cool CSE is? This is a school we’d really love to help.
It’s the season of giving, perhaps you can give some of your time? Please contact Elaine directly if you have time to help. (with a CC to ugrad-advisor@) so we know if anyone responds.
Thank you!
~CSE Advising
From: Lauren Bricker
Elaine Dondoyano is the Technology Teacher and Reading Intervention Specialist for Rainier View Elementary School. They are looking to do the “Hour of Code” with classes at the school during Computer Science Education Week, December 8-12. Her proposed schedule is linked: Hour of Code, grade schedule and she is hoping to find volunteers to help in the classroom while the students are doing their hands-on work.
She is also looking for people who might be interested in talking with elementary grade classes. (particularly 4th and 5th)
Please contact edondoyano@msn.com for more information.
Thanks
From: Dondoyano, Elaine S [mailto:esdondoyano@
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 10:50 AM
To: kbeck@cs.washington.edu
Cc: lauren.bricker@lakesideschool.
Subject: Hour of Code
Hi Kay,
Lauren Bricker contacted you about Hour of Code and mentioned
my school, Rainier View Elementary School, as looking for volunteers to
help.
I thought it would be helpful to give you a little more background about
who we are and what we do. Rainier View is a small public elementary
school in south Seattle (Skyway neighborhood). Our family population is a
high-poverty/high-needs demographic. The vast majority of our students
are students of color, and many come from immigrant families. Sadly,
schools like ours are often failing schools. Indeed, Rainier View itself
had been a failing school, with passage rates on state test scores in the
20-percent range. It was closed by Seattle Public Schools entirely in
2007.
Rainier View reopened in 2011 with new leadership and new staff, committed
to do what it takes to ensure academic success here. Since then Rainier
View has firmly established itself to be one of the most solid and
consistent academically performing schools in the city and in the state,
as demonstrated by data in the last several years.
Very few of our families have attended college or hold professional
careers in areas like technology. They don’t work for Google or Microsoft
or Amazon. This is all the more reason we would like our students to have
exposure to college students or professionals in the fields of math or
technology. We believe our students can follow that path if they choose,
and we believe them to be capable of doing so. Hour of Code is one small
introduction to those possibilities.
So if you know of anyone with an inclination to giving a vision to
students who could be deeply impacted by their presence, please do contact
me.
Sincerely,
Elaine