STEM Learning and Research (STELAR) Center

教育发展中心(EDC)和合作伙伴充当IREST计划和社区的资源中心。学习资源中心的这一新的迭代被重新命名为STEM学习和研究中心（STELAR），以代表扩大现有实践社区的日益增长的需求，并与日益多样化的利益相关者分享经验教训。在其领导LRC的九年任期内取得的各种其他成就中，EDC在建立一个蓬勃发展和高度参与的ITEST PI，项目工作人员和评估人员社区方面发挥了领导作用，开发了一个备受好评的技术支持和计划资源中心基础设施模型，提高了ITEST计划的全国知名度及其受资助者的集体影响，并通过数据简报、公开网络研讨会和工作组活动，帮助向实地传播关键项目结果。STELAR团队将他们在能力建设、扩大参与和职业发展方面的集体专业知识带到了这项新工作中。通过与教育公平非营利组织EdLab集团建立新的伙伴关系，该团队得到了充实，该组织为这项工作带来了相当多的专业知识，特别是通过国家女孩合作项目。EdLab集团参与实施关键的传播和外联活动，利用他们在开发国家网络和协作传播模式方面的经验，以及他们与扩大参与社区的广泛联系。此外，EdLab Group主要负责STELAR的社交媒体工作，因为它支持和深化技术支持，传播和外展工作。这种合作关系建立在过去EDC的成功基础上，利用更广泛的网络，并与目前不了解ITEST的受众建立联系。EDC和EdLab集团共同利用已经开发的充满活力的ITEST实践社区和ITEST计划的现有知识基础，在新的方向上扩大努力，建立在已经学到的基础上，发展新的关系，并扩大与目标利益相关者的联系。STELAR侧重于三个主要工作领域，即：1）通过及时、高质量的技术支持和在整个项目实施周期中对项目的监测，促进项目的成功; 2）通过在全国范围内传播项目成果，向STEM/ICT教育从业者和研究人员、行业和政策利益攸关方提供信息，并对他们产生影响; 3）通过扩大参与到目前没有在ITEST组合中代表的领域和机构，深化ITEST计划的影响和范围。

Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) and partners serve as the resource center for the ITEST program and community. This new iteration of the Learning Resource Center is re-named the STEM Learning and Research Center (STELAR) to represent the growing need to broaden the existing Community of Practice and share lessons learned with an increasingly diverse field of stakeholders. Among various other accomplishments in its nine-year tenure leading the LRC, EDC has provided leadership in building a thriving and highly engaged community of ITEST PIs, project staff and evaluators, developed a well-regarded model of technical support and programmatic resource center infrastructure, raised the national visibility of the ITEST program and the collective impact of its grantees, and helped disseminate key project findings to the field through data briefs, public webinars, and working group activities. The STELAR team brings their collective expertise in capacity building, broadening participation, and career development to this new work. That team is enriched through a new partnership with the EdLab Group, an educational equity non-profit organization, who brings considerable expertise to this work, in particular through the National Girls Collaborative Project. EdLab Group is involved in the implementation of key dissemination and outreach activities leveraging their experience developing national networks and collaborative dissemination models, and their extensive connections to broadening participation communities. In addition, EdLab Group has primary responsibility for the social media work of STELAR as it supports and deepens the technical support, dissemination and outreach work. This partnership builds upon past EDC successes, leverages wider networks and connects with audiences who are not currently aware of ITEST. Together, EDC and EdLab Group capitalize on the vibrant ITEST Community of Practice already developed and the existing knowledge base of the ITEST program to expand efforts in new directions that build on what has been learned, develop new relationships, and broaden outreach to targeted stakeholders. STELAR focuses on three primary areas of work, namely: 1) Facilitating projects' success through timely, high quality technical support and monitoring of projects throughout their implementation lifecycle; 2) Informing and influencing the field of STEM/ICT education practitioners and researchers, industry and policy stakeholders by disseminating project findings nationally; and 3) Deepening the impact and reach of the ITEST program by broadening participation to areas and institutions not currently represented in the ITEST portfolio.