If you are serious about using Python in schools, you should join the Python Edu-SIG at http://www.python.org/sigs/edu-sig/
Also on the Python Wiki at EduSig
Check out the links to Live Wires, a class lesson plan, to Kirby Urner, he uses Python to let students to experiment and experience math instead of the usual classroom theoretical approach, and the other great links.
This is a web site dedicated to using Python as a teaching tool in schools (high school, community colleges, etc.):
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/pyBiblio
is run by Jeff Elkner and his students at Yorktown High School in Arlington Virginia.
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/py4fun
Python for Fun is aimed at more experienced users and is run by Chris Meyers, who programs and teaches Python in Eugene, OR.
See also GuidoVanRobot.
This RaceCar program is an example of the use of Python in High School
LiveWires is a lesson plan designed for a computer camp.
Brenda Laurel does research on computer-based interactive fantasy and fiction, and she also explores gender and technology:
http://www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel/
And see our discussion about GirlProgrammers.
Note from Kirby Urner (urnerk@qwest.net): Oregon Curriculum Network
I'm looking to present a talk on Python in Education in July, 2003 at OSCON in Portland. Remarks about "lowering the threshold" for newcomers to the language seem apropos. I'm a fan of taking math content, already a school subject and developing a Python approach thereto. For example, we might want to start with simple sequences, output as lists. The triangular numbers for example. Sloane's index of integer sequences is an inspiration here, as well as 'The Book of Numbers' by Conway & Guy (Springer-Verlag, 1996):
Integer Sequences: http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/
Book of Numbers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/038797993X/qid%3D1048015655
Kirby Unner's Powerpoint presentation at OSCON 2003
The National Educational Computing Conference will be at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle on June 29 - July 2, 2003. NECC
I learned a lot about women and technology at the NECC conference that I will share later. One group active in the area is trying to coordinate technology education efforts is the Puget Sound Center and their Northwest Girls Collaborative Project -- JeffSandys