Friends, we have an awesome pod for you today! Mike and Glen discuss how teaching and politics are connected, why you shouldn’t use your advanced degree as a way to begin a social media tweet, and our guest this week is Educator and Author Josh Caldwell.

Guest: Josh Caldwell

Josh Caldwell develops tools and instructional materials to help bring the beauty of computer science to students and teachers across the world. He currently works on Computer Science learning and instruction projects for Google in Berlin. Prior to that, he worked on K-12 curriculum development at Code.org and was a middle school teacher in the Seattle area. He’s the author of Coding and the Arts: Connecting CS to Drawing, Music, Animation and More.

• Josh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrJoshida
• Website: https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/search/author/%22Caldwell,%20Josh%22

Notes:

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• Participate on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/insideparticipate

• Teaching and Politics: https://twitter.com/irvspanish/status/1373756505971949576?s=20
• I don’t have my masters so that kids in my class can read whatever they want: https://twitter.com/MatRyanELATeach/status/1373696014499119105?s=20

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