Dr. Leigh Ann DeLyser has spent her career building the K-12 computer science (CS) field. As the Executive Director of CSforALL (csforall.org), she oversees programs and strategic planning and supervises research to build support for high quality CS education at all levels. A former high school and university CS educator, Leigh Ann understands challenges faced by teachers, administrators, and students developing their competency in the field and accessing high-quality learning opportunities and resources. Her influential “Running on Empty” report guides policies and research that support high-quality program implementation. Previously, Leigh Ann was Director of Research and Education at CSNYC, which built a foundation for CS in New York City public schools. She received a PhD in Computer Science and Cognitive Psychology, with a focus on CS education, from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. DeLyser also serves on the ACM Education Advisory Committee. Her personal research focuses on systems change, building off her PhD studies in how feedback impacts behavior of learners, and thinking critically how we create feedback structures within our multi-tiered educational systems to incentivize and reinforce high quality and equitable CS education. Dr. DeLyser has written extensively about the CSforALL community, commitments, and strategic planning with local education leaders through the SCRIPT program. She enjoys questioning our explicit commitment to equity, the need to disaggregate data and consider intersectionality, and using mixed methods with rigorous statistical approaches to understand impact of our collective community efforts.
Key publications include:
Running on Empty: The Failure to Teach K-12 Computer Science in the Digital Age
Any many other white papers and articles available through CSforALL and her Google Scholar
