In 2020, PyCon will be holding its eighth annual Python Education Summit. The Summit is a gathering of teachers and educators focused on bringing coding literacy, through Python, to as broad a group of audiences as possible. We invite educators from all venues to consider joining the discussion, share insights, learn new techniques and tools and generally share their passion for education. We are looking for educators from many venues: authors; schools, colleges, universities; community-based workshops; online programs; and government. Not only will we have a wide array of full-blown talks, we will also have a round of lightning talks!

Virtual Education Summit!

Having high quality educational materials and informed educators has never been more important than now. While we cannot run the Summit with all the elements we had originally planned, The Education Summit committee is committeed to ensuring that the Summit does happen this year. We wll have a 3 hour format, held within Zoom. We will have strict schedules for talks so people can attend portions as able.

Education Summit Sponsors

Thank you to our Education Sponsors

We are very grateful for their sponsorship for this event.

Presenting

The virtual summit will focus on giving our speakers an opportunity to present their work, some with major updates about COVID-19 responses.

Goals

The goal of the Summit is to bring together leaders from multiple educational venues to:

• learn more about each other’s efforts
• gain useful insight from each other
• form connections that might foster future collaboration
• identify common issues and begin discussing ways to attack them
• create an enhanced sense of unity, purpose, and community among teachers of Python, wherever they might be

It is our hope that the Summit will serve as a catalyst leading into the rest of PyCon to encourage even more interaction - hallway discussions, open spaces, lightning talks, and sprints.

Anyone attending this conference will gain a broader understanding of approaches, issues, resources, and constraints in teaching Python, will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion, and will make contacts with other teachers of Python from across the community.

Schedule and Format

The Virtual Education Summit takes place on Friday, April 24th running from 11am - 2pm Chicago time .

We will have our talks and lightning talks presented, hopefully with plenty of time for questions and breakout discussion.

Our current schedule is below, all in Chicago time:

• 11:00am: Welcoming Remarks, format, etc.
• 11:15am: Education Summit Committee
  • Meta-talk: future directions for the education community
• 11:45am: Zoë Wilkinson Saldaña
  • Engaging learners in critical data science practices
• 12:15pm: Break
• 12:30: Jeffrey L. Olson Jr
  • Foo and “Bar” Must Die - Teach Less and Do More with Context, Predictions, and Playtime
• 1:00pm: Piper Thunstrom
  • Building to be Teachable: Why we embraced a principles driven development process
• 1:30pm: Lightning talks
  • Matthew Jansen
  • Meg Ray
• 2:00: TBA Talk
• 2:30pm: Discussions and activities (TBA)

What to expect?

We encourage all attendees to engage in the dialogue. We are anxious to hear your questions, see your ideas and experience your passion for education and Python. So please come willing to learn, to participate and most importantly, to teach.

If you have questions, please contact us.