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References: Reaching Underserved Communities and Removing Barriers

  1. Digital divide - Wikipedia - Explains the gap in technology access between income groups, the background for this chapter's low-income-family-support and free-device-loan-program sections.

  2. Women in computing - Wikipedia - History of the gender gap in technology fields, the context behind this chapter's recruiting-girls-and-women section.

  3. Universal Design for Learning - Wikipedia - Explains the framework for designing instruction accessible to learners with different needs from the start, the model behind this chapter's disability-accommodation section.

  4. Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder - Reshma Saujani - HarperOne - Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, is credited with reframing how girls relate to risk and failure in technical fields, the reasoning behind this chapter's recruiting-girls-and-women section.

  5. Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning - David H. Rose and Anne Meyer - ASCD - Rose and Meyer originated Universal Design for Learning at CAST, the framework behind this chapter's disability-accommodation and accessible-session-timing guidance.

  6. Start a Club - Girls Who Code - A national model for recruiting girls into coding programs at no cost, directly supporting this chapter's recruiting-girls-and-women and no-fee-club-model sections.

  7. UDL Guidelines - CAST - The official Universal Design for Learning guidelines, available in over 20 languages, directly supporting this chapter's disability-accommodation and language-accessibility sections.

  8. EveryoneOn - EveryoneOn - A national nonprofit that matches low-income households with affordable internet and low-cost devices by zip code, a real-world model for this chapter's free-device-loan-program section.

  9. Digital Citizenship Curriculum - Common Sense Education - Free materials available in multiple languages, supporting this chapter's translated-materials and language-accessibility sections.

  10. Afterschool Alliance - Afterschool Alliance - National data on which families lack access to afterschool programming, supporting this chapter's underserved-community-outreach and transportation-barrier-solution sections.