SIGCSE 2014 a Great Opportunity for Professional Development

I just got back from Atlanta where, while wearing one of my other hats, I helped to put together the program for the SIGCSE conference to be held March 5-8, 2014, in Atlanta, GA.
I have never seen so much K-12 content at SIGCSE before. As the panels and special session chair, I was happy to have so many quality K-12 proposals submitted.
There will be panels and special sessions sessions on:

using MOOCs to provide professional development for K-12 teachers,

looking at how K-12 CS is taught around the world,

using POGIL to teach introductory computing (with the CSTA Board’s own Tammy Pirmann),

useful teaching tips for K-12 educators (with Stephanie Hoeppner, also from the CSTA board, and also with Baker Franke and Josh Paley),

an update on the CS 10K project (getting 10,000 highly qualified teachers to teach K-12 CS),

two sessions from the CS Principles folks (one of those is with the ECS folks), and

a session on the AP exams.

There are also a large number of interesting and relevant papers, as well as many useful workshops (the workshops, unfortunately, are not free). I really wish that SIGCSE followed CSTA’s lead in videotaping sessions, as there are several times when there will many relevant events for K-12 teachers, and for those college faculty interested in K-12 issues.
Hope to see many of you at SIGCSE this year!
Steve Cooper
CSTA Past Chair