NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant: Broadening Participation of Underserved Students in STEM and CTE in the Middle Grades

NSF 包括规划补助金：扩大服务不足的学生对中年级 STEM 和 CTE 的参与

• 批准号: 2040783
• 负责人: Silvia Ramos
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundatio
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-11-15 至 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2040783&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Planning; Grant; Broadening

This NSF INCLUDES planning grant is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale. The NAPE Education Foundation will build on the success of its NSF INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilot, Intermountain (IM) STEM, to plan for and develop a national alliance of local and state change agents--leaders from organizations with influence over policies, practices and resource flows--using a collective impact framework. The goal of this national alliance is to increase the participation, retention, and program completion in STEM and career and technical education (CTE) pathways of girls; individuals who are Black, Indigenous or Native, and People of Color; and individuals from the broadened definition of special populations in Perkins V, with a particular focus on students with disabilities and students from economically disadvantaged families. The recently reauthorized Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V), now aligned with the Every Student Succeeds Act, contains new provisions emphasizing the need for CTE experiences and career guidance and counseling in the middle grades (5-8 grades), which is a critical time for students’ STEM course-taking decisions. Using this critical juncture in the education pathway, NAPE and the co-PIs from the California Department of Education, the South Carolina Department of Education, the Utah STEM Action Center, Butler Tech Schools in Ohio, and other partners will create a national collective impact network to build capacity for diversity in CTE in the middle grades.This planning grant represents a national public and private partnership of large well-positioned organizations brought together to collaborate on addressing the broadening participation challenges in STEM and CTE. The project will advance the knowledge of how collaborative efforts can lead to transformative systems change. The planning process will focus on three design elements of collaborative infrastructure: creating a shared vision; building partnerships; and identifying goals and metrics to measure progress and outcomes. The process will also include an external evaluator who will conduct a formative evaluation and whose expertise will be used in setting goals and metrics. The planning process will include leadership development, partnership expansion, crowdsourcing, and virtual convenings resulting in a strategic plan for a national collective impact network to address equity gaps in STEM and CTE. This effort will bring the STEM and CTE community together to plan the formation of a collective impact alliance that will foster an ecosystem with the capacity to inform and empower educational stakeholders to create the needed systems change that will ensure the participation of underrepresented students in STEM and CTE.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该NSF包括计划赠款，由NSF包容性在整个国家的NSF包容性资金中资助，这些社区的工程和科学领域人数不足的发现者（NSF Incluction）是一项全面的国家倡议，旨在通过专注于在STEM上的多样性，包容性和扩大STEM的参与，以提高美国在发现和创新方面的领导能力。 NAPE教育基金会将基于其NSF的成功，包括设计和开发飞行员Intermountain（IM）STEM，以计划和建立由本地和州变革代理的全国联盟（来自对政策，实践和资源流动影响的组织的领导者），这些组织使用集体影响框架。这个国家联盟的目标是增加女生的STEM，职业和技术教育（CTE）途径的参与，保留和计划完成；黑人，土著或本地人以及有色人种的人；以及来自珀金斯五世特殊人群的定义扩大的个人，特别关注残疾学生和来自经济弱势家庭的学生。最近重新授权的21世纪法案（Perkins V）的增强职业和技术教育现在符合《每个学生的成功法》，其中包含新的规定，强调了中期（5-8年级）的CTE经验以及职业指导和咨询的需求，这是学生对学生的Steam Team Tempaking team team becessition的关键时机。在教育途径，纳普和加利福尼亚教育部，南卡罗来纳州教育部，犹他州茎行动中心，俄亥俄州的巴特勒科技学校和其他合作伙伴中使用这个关键关键时刻CTE。该项目将促进有关协作努力如何导致变革性系统变化的知识。计划过程将重点关注协作基础架构的三个设计要素：创建共同的愿景；建立伙伴关系；并确定目标和指标以衡量进度和成果。该过程还将包括一个外部评估，该评估将进行形成性评估，并将其专业知识用于设定目标和指标。计划过程将包括领导力发展，伙伴关系扩张，众包和虚拟召集，从而为国家集体影响网络制定了战略计划，以解决STEM和CTE中的股权差距。这项努力将使STEM和CTE社区聚集在一起，以计划集体影响联盟的形成，该联盟将促进生态系统，以告知和授权教育利益相关者创建所需的系统变化，从而确保STEM和CTE中代表性不足的学生的参与。这一奖项通过审查NSF的法律范围而受到评估的良好的支持者，这一奖项是由众所周知的依据来评估的。