BPC-AE: Into the Loop: A University K-12 Alliance to Increase and Enhance the Computer Science Learning Opportunities for African American, Latino/a, and Female Students

BPC-AE：进入循环：大学 K-12 联盟，旨在增加和增强非裔美国人、拉丁裔/a 和女学生的计算机科学学习机会

• 批准号: 1042302
• 负责人: Jane Margolis
• 金额: $ 150万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1042302&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BPC; AE; Into; Loop; University

This Broadening Participation in Computing award funds the extension of the Into the Loop Alliance. The Into the Loop Alliance has a primary goal of helping to strengthen the capacity of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second largest and one of the most diverse school districts in the country, to offer and support high-quality, college preparatory computer science classes, especially in high schools with high numbers of African-American and Latino students. The goal is also to pursue a strategy that creates sustainable changes in the culture and practices at the school and district level; and to develop a model and repository of best practices that can help spread and inform similar efforts in other school districts. The strategic approaches utilized range from the classroom and school level to the policy level. This Alliance Extension provides the opportunity to expand and sustain the original alliance work locally and nationally. With its initial funding, the Into the Loop Alliance has created an innovative pre-Advanced Placement (AP) computer science curriculum, Exploring Computer Science (ECS); piloted ECS in approximately 16 LA schools with over 900 students enrolled, predominately Latino/a and African American students; designed an ECS Professional Development program; and developed authentic higher education computer science involvement with K-12 schools and educators . In addition to deepening and extending all of the above, the alliance extension includes a commitment to three new strategic initiatives: designing assessment measures for student learning of computational thinking; launching a statewide policy campaign, the California Computing Initiative (CCI); and providing leadership for state and national expansion of these initiatives. All of these goals are aimed at institutionalization and sustainability of the alliance progress to date.Intellectual Merit: Improving STEM education and guaranteeing equal access to quality education for all students is one of our country's most pressing challenges. Into the Loop sits at the crux of this national challenge. The underlying project research about increasing rigorous learning of computer science opportunities in schools, about assessing student learning of computational thinking, about professional development for computer science teachers, especially in schools with high numbers of students of color, will shed light on similar challenges in other STEM disciplines.Broader Impact: Into the Loop will provide a model of what has to be done both on the school, district, state, and national levels to improve quality computer science education for all students. The models of professional development that will be designed and implemented in the second largest and one of the most diverse school district in the country will contribute to efforts underway to broaden participation in computing: specifically, to recruit and train a high school teachers who can impart to students the magic and computational thinking of computer science, to re-position Computer Science at the high school level as an academic subject, and to redesign the high school curriculum so that it is rigorous and engaging for a broad segment of our student population. Creating statewide policy change that can reinforce all of these initiatives will be critical for institutionalizing and sustaining these reforms and will be a model for other states as well.

这个扩大参与计算奖的资金进入循环联盟的扩展。进入循环联盟的主要目标是帮助加强洛杉矶联合学区（LAUSD）的能力，该学区是美国第二大和最多样化的学区之一，提供和支持高质量的大学预科计算机科学课程，特别是在非洲裔美国人和拉丁裔学生人数较多的高中。目标还包括推行一项战略，在学校和学区一级的文化和做法中创造可持续的变化;并制定一个最佳做法的模式和储存库，以帮助在其他学区传播和宣传类似的努力。所采用的战略方法从课堂和学校一级到政策一级都有。 该联盟扩展提供了在地方和国家范围内扩大和维持原有联盟工作的机会。有了最初的资金，进入循环联盟已经创建了一个创新的预高级安置（AP）计算机科学课程，探索计算机科学（ECS）;在大约16所洛杉矶学校试点ECS，有900多名学生入学，主要是拉丁美洲/a和非洲裔美国学生;设计了ECS专业发展计划;并与K-12学校和教育工作者一起开发了真正的高等教育计算机科学。除了深化和扩展上述所有内容外，联盟扩展还包括对三项新战略举措的承诺：为学生学习计算思维设计评估措施;发起全州范围的政策运动，即加州计算倡议（CCI）;并为这些倡议的州和国家扩展提供领导。所有这些目标都旨在实现联盟迄今为止的制度化和可持续发展。智力优势：改善STEM教育并确保所有学生平等获得优质教育是我国最紧迫的挑战之一。进入循环坐落在这个国家的挑战的关键。关于在学校增加严格学习计算机科学的机会，关于评估学生学习计算思维，关于计算机科学教师的专业发展的基础项目研究，特别是在有色人种学生人数较多的学校，将揭示其他STEM学科的类似挑战。Into the Loop将提供一个模型，说明在学校、地区、州和国家层面上必须做些什么，以提高所有学生的计算机科学教育质量。将在全国第二大和最多样化的学区之一设计和实施的专业发展模式将有助于正在进行的扩大参与计算的努力：具体来说，招聘和培训一名能够向学生传授计算机科学的魔力和计算思维的高中教师，重新定位计算机科学在高中阶段作为一门学科，并重新设计高中课程，使其严格并吸引广大学生。在全州范围内改变政策，加强所有这些举措，对于使这些改革制度化和持续下去至关重要，也将成为其他州的榜样。