Todd Lash
Director of Computer Science Teacher Education, Curriculum & Instruction
Contact
314N Education Building
(mail code 708)
Champaign (UIUC Campus Mail), IL 61820
Biography
Todd Lash is a Ph.D student in the Department of Special Education interested designing equitable computer science education. Previously, he worked for seventeen years as a k-5 classroom teacher, interventionist, library media specialist, and instructional coach for computer science and computational thinking at the elementary level. He is the co-founder of EdCampCU, which aims to bring community members with diverse viewpoints together to discuss education-related issues. Todd’s research interests are around increasing equity in and access to high-quality computer science education for all students. He served as a writer for the 2016 Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Standards Revision team and as a writer for the k12cs.org Framework project. Todd is also an active member of the CSTA K-8 task group.