RISE (Raising Interest in Science & Engineering): A Collaborative Effort Targeting Middle School Girls

HRD-9813891朱迪·布朗迈阿密科学博物馆，与迈阿密-戴德县公立学校城市系统倡议(USI)和SECME合作。公司(前Southeaster少数民族工程师联合会)将实施和发展项目，利用现有网络和资源，确保女孩崛起(提高对科学和工程的兴趣)的广泛扩展。Girls Rise是由博物馆设计的NSF PWG模型项目，旨在提高中学女生对数学和科学的自尊和信心，从而减少女孩从初中升到高中时提前完成的数学和科学课程的消耗。新的合作项目SECME Rise将在迈阿密-戴德县公立学校推广Girls Rise模式，迈阿密-戴德县公立学校拥有34.5万名学生，是美国第四大学区。通过综合计划战略，包括职业探索研讨会、技术研讨会、工程设计工作室、同行领导力培训、首席教师学院、家长参与活动和通过当地公共图书馆网络获取技术，SECME Rise将努力在迈阿密-戴德公立学校实现一种系统的方法，使女孩(重点是有色人种女孩)更有机会获得更好的科学、数学和技术教育，并接触与工程相关的职业。将通过国家SECME，Inc.教师暑期研究所(15个州，100个学校系统)，利用现有的科学、工程和数学网络，外展机会，印刷和电子媒体，以及SECME Rise网站，以及通过记录该计划对女孩在数学和科学方面成就的影响，向该领域作出贡献，实现广泛的方案传播。通过这种合作，SECME Rise将寻求增加女孩参加传统上代表不足的课程的机会，并通过以下方式实现永久改变：1)通过科学馆、公立学校、大学和私营部门；2)创造课外和非正式的科学学习机会，为女孩在过渡时期(中到高级)保持对科学和数学的兴趣提供新的工具；3)通过提高教师对性别平等教育的益处的认识，影响课堂教学；4)提高父母的认识，并为女儿的SMT教育和相关的职业抱负争取父母的支持；5)促进关于社会经济地位和种族如何与性别相互作用的研究基础，以影响数学和科学学习；6)记录非正式教学(课前和课后、周六和暑期计划)对保持女孩在数学和科学方面的兴趣和成就的影响。

HRD-9813891Judy BrownThe Miami Museum of Science, in collaboration with Miami-Dade County Public Schools Urban Systemic Initiative (USI), and SECME. Inc. (formerly Southeaster Consortia for Minority Engineers) will carry out implementation and development project that will leverage existing networks and resources to ensure wide scale expansion of Girls RISE (Raising Interest in Science and Engineering). Girls RISE is an NSF PWG model project designed by the Museum to increase middle school girls' self-esteem and confidence in leering mathematics and science, thus reducing the attrition in advance level mathematics and science coursework that occurs as girls move from middle school to high school.The new collaborative project, entitled SECME RISE, will expand the Girls RISE model in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth largest school district in the country with 345,000= students. Through integrated program strategies including career exploration seminars, technology workshops, an engineering design studio, peer leadership training, a lead teacher institute, parent involvement activities and technology access through the local public library network, SECME RISE will work to achieve a systemic approach in Miami-Dade Public schools that will enhance the access of girls (with an emphasis on girls of color) to improved science, mathematics and technology education and exposure to engineering-related careers. Broad program dissemination will be achieved through the national SECME, Inc. Teacher Summer institute (15 states, 100 school systems), utilization of existing science, engineering and mathematics networks, outreach opportunities, print and electronic media, and the SECME RISE web site, as well as through contributions to the field through documentation of the program's impact on girls' achievements in mathematics and science.Through this collaboration, SECME RISE will seek to increase the access of girls to those courses in which they have been traditionally underrepresented as well at to effect permanent change by: 1) Expanding the SMT infrastructure trough a new partnership between science museums, public schools, universities and the private sector;2) Creating extracurricular and informal science learning opportunities that provide new vehicles for maintaining girl's interest in science and mathematics through the transitional years (middle to high)3) Effecting classroom pedagogy by increasing teacher awareness of the benefits of gender-fair education for both males and females;4) Increasing parental awareness and eliciting parental support for their daughter' SMT education and related career aspirations;5) Contributing to the research base on how socio-economic status and ethnicity interact with gender to influence mathematics and science learning; and6) Documenting the impact of informal instruction (before and after school, Saturday and summer programming) on maintaining girl's interest and achievement in mathematics and science.