“Curriculum…You Have It, But Are You DOING It?”
April 16, 2026 – 9:30 Am to 11:00 AM
In January, a handful of districts met in Jefferson City to discuss the new resource outlined in Administrative Memo OCCR-25-011—Computer Science and how districts are implementing Computer Science in their district. Not only is DESE increasing its focus on Computer Science instruction, but so are legislators. HB 3139, being reviewed in the House right now, adds cybersecurity, social media training, and artificial intelligence as areas of focus while also requiring all students graduating after 2027-2028 school year to have completed one-half unit of academic credit with a computer science course before grade twelve. Even though this bill is still being debated, it reinforces the need for districts to take a hard look at the computer science instruction taking place within their district.
Join us for our April Monthly Meetup as we come together to collaborate about best practices in implementing Computer Science instruction in our districts. We will share a folder containing the presentation from January, DESE resource documents, and links to district-created resources for participants to review and add to for the benefit of all Missouri districts.
As always, any individual within our member districts is welcome to attend the Monthly Meetups. Feel free to invite others within your district who may focus more directly on with computer science instruction to share and participate in this relevant and engaging topic!
Monthly Meetup padlet (https://padlet.com/SMCAAResources/monthlymeetups ) to share your district’s resources to help aid in our collaboration!
Meet-ups will be casual in nature and allow YOU the chance to ask questions you have related to all things related to curriculum, instruction, and assessment. The open-forum format will give you the chance to hear not only from SMCAA personnel, but also from fellow members from across the state who join us during the meet-ups.
All Monthly Meet-Ups will use the same GoTo Meetings Room. To jump online to any of the Monthly Meet-Ups, CLICK HERE or go to this URL: https://meet.goto.com/664716005
A password is required to login to the meeting. If you did not save the password from the last meeting, please email jriley@smcaa.org or arichardson@smcaa.org .
The Monthly Meet-Ups are designed to help address your questions and to meet your needs, if you have specific questions you would like to submit ahead of time, feel free to do so! To submit a question or a general topic you would like to see discussed, please CLICK HERE. You will be taken to a Google Form which will allow you the chance to share your questions with us. Not sure what your questions might be? That’s ok! Those who log in will have a chance to ask questions at that time as well.
Monthly Meet-Up Dates for 2025-2026 School Year:
| Date | Time | Submitted Topics | ||
| July 17th | 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | A.I. Usage Guidelines | ||
| August 19th | 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Recovering from COVID: Data Patterns Observed | ||
| September 18th | 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Best Practices in Using MAP Data | ||
| October 16th | 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Success Ready Student Assessment initiative and the Grade-Level Equivalence | ||
| November 21st | 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Our APRs: Insights, Successes, and Questions | ||
| December 4th | 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Cancelled | ||
| January 9th | 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Best Practices Surrounding Resource Pilots | ||
| February 4th | 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | How Can We Best Use the Growth Resources Available to Impact Our Practices? Stuart Smith, Special Guest | ||
| March 6th | 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | “Curriculum…You Have It, But Are You DOING it?” | ||
| April 16th | 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Computer Science: Bits and Bytes of What You Are Doing | ||
| May 11th | 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | |||
| June 18th | 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM |