Selected publications from Northern Lights Collaborative team members and projects:
Jennifer Rosato, Joe Tise, Laycee Thigpen, Fatima Brunson, & Monica McGill. (2025). Coaching as a Means to Support Teacher Development of Computer Science Knowledge and Skills. In Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2025 (pp. 1782-1792). Waynesville, NC USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
Jean Salac and Justin L. Cannady. 2025. Piloting Intergenerational Participatory Design with Students & Teachers to develop Integrated K-8 CS Learning Experiences. In Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSETS 2025). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1607–1608. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641555.3705228
Jennifer Rosato, Fatima Brunson, Joseph C. Tise, Laycee Thigpen, and Monica M. McGill. 2025. Enabling Professional Growth and Identity of High School CS Teachers through One-on-One Coaching. In Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSETS 2025). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1601–1602. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641555.3705172
Justin L. Cannady. 2025. Iterative Development of an Evaluative Checklist for Integrated Computer Science Lessons in K-8. In Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSETS 2025). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1403–1404. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641555.3705210
Jennifer Rosato, Laycee Thigpen, Fatima Brunson, Joe Tise, and Monica McGill. 2024. Coaching Teachers to Teach Computer Science with Equity-focused Teacher Standards. In Proceedings of the 19th WiPSCE Conference on Primary and Secondary Computing Education Research (WiPSCE '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 8, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3677619.3678119
Justin Cannady, Jennifer Rosato, and Paul Schonfeld. 2024. Exploring Collaboration as a Bridge to K-8 CS Integration. In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSE 2024). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1590–1591. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626253.3635565
Michelle Friend, Jennifer Rosato, Nathan Bean, Russell Feldhausen, and Josh Weese. 2024. Creating University CS Teacher Preparation Programs. In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSE 2024). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1910. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626253.3635388
Isabella Gransbury, Monica M. McGill, Angelica Thompson, Sarah Heckman, Jennifer Rosato, and Leigh Ann Delyser. 2023. A Framework of Factors that Influence Academic Achievement in Computer Science within Capacity, Access, Participation and Experience. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 2 (ICER '23), Vol. 2. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 28–29. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568812.3603481
Janice Mak, Jennifer Rosato, and Melissa Hosten. 2023. Data Science Landscape in Preservice Teacher Education. In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSE 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1317. https://doi.org/10.1145/3545947.3576264
Monica M. McGill, Angelica Thompson, Isabella Gransbury, Sarah Heckman, Jennifer Rosato, and Leigh Ann Delyser. 2023. Building upon the CAPE Framework for Broader Understanding of Capacity in K-12 CS Education. In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 577–582. https://doi.org/10.1145/3545945.3569799
Justin Cannady and Jennifer Rosato. 2023. "The Continued Journey Toward Including All Students: Results From a Mobile CSP Audit," 2023 Conference on Research in Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2023, pp. 172-176, https://doi.org/10.1109/RESPECT60069.2023.00041
Jennifer Rosato and Christa Treichel. 2022. "Early Lessons Learned in Creating K12 CS Pathways in Rural and Tribal Schools," 2022 Conference on Research in Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2022, pp. 55-59, https://doi.org/10.1109/RESPECT55273.2022.00018
Cassandra Broneak and Jennifer Rosato. 2021. "Experiences of Rural CS Principles Educators," 2021 Conference on Research in Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2021, pp. 1-2, https://doi.org/10.1109/RESPECT51740.2021.9620685
Cassandra Broneak and Jennifer Rosato. 2021. Developing Empathy and Persistence through Professional Development in New to CSA Teachers. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER 2021). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 443. https://doi.org/10.1145/3446871.3469793
Barbara Ericson, Beryl Hoffman, and Jennifer Rosato. 2020. CSAwesome: AP CSA curriculum and professional development (practical report). In Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Primary and Secondary Computing Education (WiPSCE '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 5, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3421590.3421593
Beryl Hoffman, Ralph Morelli, and Jennifer Rosato. 2019. Student Engagement is Key to Broadening Participation in CS. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1123–1129. https://doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3287438