In this session, we’ll share the Computer Science Student-Centered Instructional Continuum (CS-SCIC), a new framework to support PreK–12 instructors in their lesson design. Educators are faced with choices when building computer science lessons; there is a tension between direct instruction, e.g., constructivism, and unstructured student-led instruction, e.g., constructionism, resulting in little guidance on providing differentiated instruction. Theoretically aligned to Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development, CS-SCIC places research-based instructional strategies on a simple learning continuum. Teachers use the continuum to discuss,...