Instructional Resources

Prior to the start of your first camp, all instructor and instructor assistants will complete a Sample Teach to practice teaching software development in a remote setting and get feedback from peers on the execution of lessons. These sessions will be led by senior instructors and the Kode With Klossy team. Read through this document to learn more about how to prepare for your sample teach.

This table details a typical day-in-the-life at camps. These times align with the time zone that your camp is slotted to. While the vast majority of camps will follow this general structure, some camps may have slight adjustments in timing.

- Co-Teaching in remote settings makes lessons much easier! However, it requires a high level of coordination across the instructional team. Refer to this document for various co-teaching models that you can use with your co-instructor.

Every Wednesday during camps, we will ask you to hold 12-1pm ET for the Kode With Klossy x Techsetters Speaker Series! These incredible conversations, moderated by Jenny and Sam, hosts of the Techsetters podcast, will highlight incredible women in STEM and are an incredible way for the entire community to come together on one Zoom to experience this together. We will send Zoom links and details in the #general slack channel but encourage you to share details (both of the speaker and of the event) with scholars to ensure they attend. We've also found it powerful if instructors include a debrief or reflection of the speaker series in that day's closing circle. There are often some special guests during this time 🙂

For the slides to brain breaks, please click here

Please consider the following brain break best practices:

1. Consider ahead of time, “what kind of brain break would best fit my scholars right now?” Something a bit more active to get them out of their seats. Something team-related to build morale? From there, find the brain break that fits what logistical constraints you have, maybe, such as timing, or the amount of people.
2. After showing scholars a handful of brain breaks, in the second week, you can even ask them to vote on brain breaks to give them a say on what they’d like
3. Allow scholars a space to opt out if they are uncomfortable. You can say “Hi everyone, we’re going to be playing for the next five minutes. Here’s how to play! . If you’re interested in playing, we’d love to have you. If not, feel free to turn your webcam off”

Here are some examples of theme days that you can have at Kode With Klossy camps this summer.

1. Pajama Day 🛌
2. Meme Day 🤣
3. Disney Day 🏰
4. Sports Day 🤾‍♀️
5. On Wednesdays We Wear Pink 👚
6. Kode With Klossy Green Day 💚
7. Tacky Sweater Day 🧥
8. Crazy Hat Day 🎩
9. Beach / Vacation Day 🏖
10. Super Hero Day 🦸‍♀️
11. Dress Fancy Day 👗
12. Blast From the Past / Throwback Day 🕰

The content captured during camps helps us tell the Kode With Klossy story for the rest of the year. While all the sessions are recorded on Zoom, the real community experience is shown through the in-between, organic moments. We’ll provide you with a Google Drive folder to upload any pictures, TikToks, videos, or screenshots that you take throughout your session. You can also hold your scholars accountable for sending their own captured content, and should designate an IA to serve as the content liaison.

In advance of your camp, we will send some guidelines for good moments to capture, including culture of tech, brain breaks, and organic moments, such as scholars hyping each other up, or laughing, or generally being a community.

1. We use office hours to:
   1. provide additional and differentiated support to scholars on content taught that day or night hacks
   2. help scholars consolidate and synthesize their learning
   3. continue building community and scholar confidence in their skills
2. They should be flexible and driven by scholar needs, but could involve:
   1. Concept review
   2. Collaborative work time on night hacks
   3. Additional practice (use medium and spicy challenges)
3. Should be led by any two instructional leaders, daily, for 1 hour
   1. Up to you how you want to schedule the time and divide it up
      1. i.e. is it the same time every night? Or do you want to vary it?
      2. i.e. Will Awa and Kariann always do M, T, and Tara and Hallie will always do W, Th?

Feedback is incredibly important to the success of current and future camps.

Scholar feedback is solicited through:

1. Microfeedback (every day)
2. Mid-Camp & End of Camp Surveys

Instructional Leader Feedback is solicited & shared through:

1. End of Camp Surveys
2. Via Slack (by tagging '@' kodewithklossyhq)
3. Informal check-ins & observations

We have some incredible engineers and technologists in the Kode With Klossy extended network who are excited to provide support and mentorship to scholars this summer. We have partnered with companies like IBM and others to provide mentors into many camps for scholars. These mentors will join your Pitch Parties on Day 6 and Demo Days on Day 10. Their role will be to provide feedback and encouragement on pitches and then see the evolution during work time on Days 8 and 9 (optional for them to join during project work time) and return on Day 10 to see final projects presented. A list of mentors that will join your camp will be provided to you by the end of the first week of camp. Kode With Klossy will communicate all Zoom details to mentors so you don't have to. We encourage you to allow all mentors to introduce themselves at the beginning of the Pitch Party so scholars know who is in the room.

Louisa Lafayette Inc. utilizes ADP as an employee payroll management system. Payroll is run on a biweekly basis and employees are scheduled to receive their paychecks a week following their last day of each camp session they teach. Louisa Lafayette Inc. employees are generally paid via direct deposit (unless requested otherwise in ADP). Any questions regarding payroll should be directed to hr@louisalafayette.com with the header Payroll - First Name Last Name.

Employees will be onboarded onto the ADP system prior over the next few weeks. Please ensure that all information inputted into ADP is correct and up-to-date, especially Direct Deposit to ensure the deposit of correct and timely payment.

WebDev Pacing Guide and Detailed Daily Agenda

MobileApp Pacing Guide and Detailed Daily Agenda

Please refer to the following document for more information regarding Night Hacks.

Slides are provided for you to use if you’d like - we highly encourage you to personalize, edit, and change to best fit your personality and your scholars’ needs. Please find them here.

These answer keys are for instructional leaders to reference for instruction. Please do not share these links with scholars.

WebDev Answer Key
MobileApp Try-Its Answer Key
MobileApp Conditionals Practice Answer Key
MobileApp For-In Loops Practice Answer Key
MobileApp Functions Practice Answer Key

This folder has all the resources you need to lead the Culture of Tech sessions!

Web Dev Kahoots

Mobile App Kahoots

All of the resources for Pitch Party and Final Projects can be found here. As an overview, you can find the:

Final Project Instructor Guide - a one-stop-shop guide for instructors to lead final projects

Final Project Scholar Guide- a one-stop-shop guide for scholars to build their final projects

Final Project Management Guide - for instructors to think through managing groups for final project

App Design Workbook Template - for scholars to work through their final projects. While this says 'App Design', it can be used interchangeably for their curricula.

App Design Workbook Template - for scholars to work through their final projects. While this says 'App Design', it can be used interchangeably for their curricula.

Scholar Pitch Party Slide Deck Template - for scholars as a resource to plan their pitch party presentations.

Scholar Demo Day Presentation Slide Deck Template - for scholars as a resource to plan their demo day presentations.

In this folder, you’ll find a run-of-show and a slide deck that we made for you to celebrate the big day!

For those returning to the KWK community, we implemented 3 main changes to this year:

1. We will not be inviting parents to Demo Day & Graduation Ceremony live (instead, we will send them an amazing recording) and

2. Thus, we will not be using Zoom Webinar, and instead, will only use Zoom Meetings (the platform we currently use!)

3. There will be no scholar screencast video. Instead, scholars will demo their projects live once during the afternoon. The morning will be spent prepping for this presentation!

This video walks you through remote pairing for MobileApp!

Please refer to this Google Document for all the information your team will need regarding attendance policies.

Please refer to this document for all the information that you may need regarding Zoom policies.

There’s such a wealth knowledge and variety of strategies that you all have-- we want to make sure all of that is captured, shared, and that information is as easy for scholars to find as possible and your team to find as possible. We’re using a shared Google Drive so any documents and resources should be placed in your camp folder, which can be found pinned in your Slack channel.

This is a one-stop-shop that will help scholars find the most important information they need each day for camps. Our team has created a template that can be found in your camp folder, but each camp should add links and regularly update this document. The Quick Links doc includes the following:

1. a link to the curriculum website
2. the Zoom meeting link for your camp sessions
3. a collaborative playlist you can create with your scholars throughout camp
4. a link to the folder housing lesson recordings
5. the daily microfeedback form
6. daily lesson slide decks
7. daily lesson recordings
8. night hack information

Throughout camps, you should track specific information about scholars using the platform, Airtable. Airtable is a spreadsheet-database hybrid that is used to house scholar records. Each camp will have its own Airtable base to track scholar progress and key information throughout camps. Each base includes:

1. Roster
2. Attendance and Hack tracker
3. Scholar Microfeedback Responses
4. Team Microfeedback Plan
5. Final Project Interest Form
6. Final Project Tracker

This tutorial will walk you through how to navigate and use your Airtable base. In the weeks leading up to your camp, you will receive access to a "sandbox" Airtable base that you can use to play around with and practice using Airtable, as well as your camp's base.

At the end of each day, you should plan on taking 30 minutes to prepare for your Microfeedback session. This should include:

~ 10 min. - standing up and taking a break from your computer

~ 10 min. - reading the microfeedback comments from your scholars

~ 10 min. - preparing your own thinking and analysis of what went well and what needs improvement. This does not need to be written down concretely, but you should be prepared to share this thinking with your team.

After this 30 minute break, you should meet with your instructional team to discuss microfeedback and develop next steps for the next day. You will capture these notes in your camp’s Airtable tracker.

You can learn more about this overall process in this document.

As a note, to the best of your ability, please encourage all scholars to complete the microfeedback. If a scholar leaves early, they should still complete the microfeedback.

Your success for the summer will be greatly influenced by your instructional team.  The way you set expectations for communication, feedback, and working styles is critical to create a positive experience for scholars.  We call this process DTR -- Define the Relationship.  The more detailed and specific you can be at the start, the better your full instructional team will work together. 

Recommended Process

1. DTR with your co-instructor as soon as possible
2. DTR with your full instructional team including your IAs at least 1 week before camp
3. Return to the DTR at the end of the first day of camp
4. Return to your DTR any time you come into a team conflict

You’ll find this document in your camps folder.

New Instructor

Returning Instructor

Instructor Assistant

New Instructor

Returning Instructor

Instructor Assistant