Background 

To be an empowered citizen in our democracy—able to navigate, improve, and shape our society and its institutions—you need to know how the code of the U.S. Constitution works. Furthermore, to be a galvanized and adaptive member of American’s 21st century workforce—able to solve the problems facing our world—you need to use computing to address today’s challenges. 

What is Two Codes? 

The Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE), in partnership with the College Board, is embarking on its second year of its state-specific Two Codes initiative by enacting key policies and plans that encourage greater participation and success in college level computer science and civics courses. Two Codes is the College Board’s effort to guarantee all students have access to deep learning experiences that build the knowledge, skills, and agency required to make a difference in the world—with an explicit focus on providing AP U.S. Government and Politics (AP GoPo) and AP Computer Science Principles (AP CSP) in American high schools.  

Central to the Two Codes work in Rhode Island is ensuring commitment and engagement from teachers and administrators at the school level.  To support this important work, RIDE and the College Board are establishing a second cohort of Two Codes Teacher Ambassadors.  This second cohort of Two Codes Teacher Ambassadors will work closely with a Two Codes Mentor – a teacher who participated in the first cohort of Two Codes Teacher Ambassadors and helped create the Two Codes Shared Principles, lesson plans, and project-based learning activities the new cohort of teachers will implement in their classrooms.   

This opportunity is open to all high schools that currently offer AP Government and Politics and/or AP Computer Science or any high school that would like to offer these two courses.