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Calling all High School teachers! SIGCSE 2011 is being held in Dallas on March 9 – 12, and has a great program that will appeal to K - 12 teachers. Listed below are sessions that may be of particular interest to you:

• Paper Session: Learning Objects and Modules (10:45 – 12:00)
• Microsoft Session: F# - From Foundations to Modern Parallel and Data Rich Functional Programming (10:45 – 12:00)
• Special Session: The CS10K Project: Mobilizing the Community to Transform High School Computing (1:45 to 3:00)
• Paper Session: Teaching Programming: Non-Traditional Approaches (1:45 to 3:00)
• Paper Session: Algorithms (1:45 to 3:00)
• Panel Session: Successful K-12 Outreach Strategies (3:45 to 5:00)
• Panel Session: Setting the Stage for Computing Curricula 2013: Computer Science the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Task Force (3:45 to 5:00)
• Paper Session: Peer Teaching and Tutoring (3:45 to 5:00)
• Birds of a Feather Sessions: Flock I (5:10 to 6:00) and Flock II (6:10 to 7:00)

This is the official High School Teachers' Day

• Special Session: NCATE Standards for Preparation of Secondary Computer Science Teachers (10:45 to 12:00)
• Paper Session: Computational Thinking (10:45 to 12:00)
• Paper Session: Discrete Mathematics (10:45 to 12:00)
• Paper Session: CS 1: Tools (10:45 to 12:00)
• Special Event: Alice Tea Party (12:50 to 1:30)
• Panel Session: Teaching Tips We Wish They'd Told Us Before We Started, Small College Class Edition (1:45 to 3:00)
• Paper Session: Computing in the Arts and Sciences (1:45 to 3:00)
• Paper Session: Data Structures / CS2 (1:45 to 3:00)
• Supporter Session: Google Education Initiatives in 2011 (1:45 to 3:00)
• Special Session: CS Principles: Piloting a New Course at a National Scale (3:45 to 5:00)
• Paper Session: Relevant Computing (3:45 to 5:00)
• Paper Session: K-12 Instruction (3:45 to 5:00)
• Paper Session: Web Based Tools (3:45 to 5:00)
• Supporter Session: Microsoft - Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer: A New Way To Create Electronic Devices (3:45 to 5:00)
• Supporter Session: Google - Talk in Depth with Representatives from Google’s Education Programs (3:45 to 5:00)

• Ancillary Event: Greenfoot Breakfast Club (7:00 to 8:15)
• Panel Session: Scratching the Subject Surface: Infusing Computing into the K12 Curriculum (8:30 to 9:45)
• Special Session: Nifty Assignments (8:30 to 9:45)
• Paper Session: Teaching and Studying Novice Programmers (8:30 to 10:10)
• Paper Session: Teacher Endorsement and Preparation (8:30 to 10:10)
• Paper Session: Expanding the Community (8:30 to 10:10)
• Paper Session: Mobile Computing (8:30 to 10:10)
• Panel Session: Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe: Making Computing Fun Again, Part 4 (10:55 to 12:10)
• Special Session: Progress in Surfacing Computer Science for STEM (10:55 to 12:10)
• Paper Session: Intro CS: Panoptic Views (10:55 to 12:10)
• Paper Session: Cooperative Learning (10:55 to 12:10)