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The Magic of Socratic
August 23, 2021We often talk about our use of the Socratic method at The Coding Space. Why? Because it is integral to what we believe about learning: that it’s most effective when students are given space and time to forge their own connections. Our teachers are not pitchers of knowledge filling the cups of our students. Instead, our teachers act as stand-ins for the inner critical voice that we want our…
Welcome to Fall Semester 2021
August 06, 2021Dear Coding Space Family, We are so thrilled to welcome you back in person this fall! With locations opening back up in New York on the Upper East Side (we’ve moved!), Park Slope, and Long Island and a new location in Westchester, we can’t wait to see new and old faces and code together once again. With experience running an in-person test class over the summer, we are confident in our COVID-1…
The Coding Space Cup: Where Legends Are Made
June 02, 2021Not sure what we’re talking about? Let’s do a thought experiment. Imagine the greatest computer scientists in history: Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Grace Hopper, Barbara Liskov, John von Neumann. Then imagine a league of teams named after these computational maestros, each competing for glory in an elaborate system of points, power, puzzles, and prizes. Now imagine the teams are made up of our…
Celebrating Scratch During #ScratchWeek
May 03, 2021May 17-23 is Scratch Week, and we at The Coding Space can’t wait to celebrate! The weeklong virtual event promises tons of activities and surprises for the millions of avid Scratchers out there. In case you’re not familiar, Scratch is a block-based programming language designed for children and used by people of all ages in over 150 countries. In Scratch, beginner programmers and coding experts…
Introducing My Coding Space: a New Learning Platform
February 04, 2021Capturing Progress One of My Coding Space’s most powerful features is its ability to capture the progress of our students. As students move from dragging and dropping blocks in Scratch, to coding a two-player game in WoofJS, to building websites from a blank page, we’ll see it all—and so will parents. From class to class and semester to semester, we’ll have a complete record of our students…
TCS Teacher Spotlight: Meet Brenda Castro
November 04, 2020We at The Coding Space are continually inspired by the dedicated and caring teachers on our team, especially those who contribute to the wellbeing of the communities they serve. Brenda Castro, a Long Island-based TCS teacher and tutor with Private Prep, is a great example of our culture of caring in action. In addition to helping students learn to think critically, be creative, and code, she…