Juanita High School has a computer science class this semester. Through the TEALS program, a partnership with Microsoft, the Juanita High School is currently teaching a semester-long computer science class, with plans to offer year-long, advanced computer science classes in the future.
TEALS (Technology Education And Literacy in Schools) is a grassroots employee driven program that recruits, mentors, and places Microsoft employees who are passionate about technology literacy into classes as part-time teachers in a team teaching model.
The Microsoft employees who instruct and assist the computer science class at JHS are Nell Elliott, Sam Ng, Mark Flores and Alex Heitzman. Classroom teacher Jennifer Harris is “thrilled with the learning taking place and grateful for the TEALS instructors who are providing this unique opportunity for her students.”
The Lake Washington Schools Foundation provided new LCD monitors in the computer lab that greatly improves the learning environment.
TEAL program founder Kevin Wang has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a graduate degree in Education from Harvard University.
He built and taught a seven to 12 computer science curriculum for three years at a San Francisco Bay area high school and additional years part-time at a local Seattle area school, robotics summer camp, after school at the Community Charter School of Cambridge, and online at UMass Boston.
He was a member of the MIT Teacher Education Program’s StarLogo programming language team, where he published a paper on kids programming games using StarLogo. Wang was also an engineering fellow specializing in knowledge transfer at Lockheed Martin and Toyota. He is currently a program manager at Microsoft.
