PKAL Capital Region Network Workshop at the University of the District of Columbia

哥伦比亚特区大学（UCD）的首都区域网络研讨会旨在将哥伦比亚特区大学及其合作伙伴摩根州立大学、汉普顿大学和鲍伊州立大学与美国学院和大学协会的万花筒项目联合起来，以增加科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教师，并通过让传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）参与进来，扩大全国范围内关于扩大参与本科STEM教育的讨论。本次研讨会提供了一个机会，可以捕捉到HBCUs的最佳实践，这些实践已知会给非裔美国STEM学生带来积极的结果，并将其转移到更广泛的机构类型中。预计将有200名教职员工和管理人员参加这次研讨会。该计划将帮助首都地区网络中的STEM教师和机构建立他们对学生学习方式的了解；培养STEM教学最佳实践的能力和使用能力；促进他们利用有效的STEM课堂内外学习经验；有助于将研究融入本科课程和课程设置；并促进各院校教师之间的合作，以改善STEM专业和非专业的学习成果。由于STEM教师的广泛受众的注入以及其在提高STEM教师自我效能方面的记录，预计该区域网络将维持自身并将发展壮大。

The Capital Regional Network Workshop at the University of the District of Columbia (UCD) aims to bring together UDC and its partners, Morgan State University, Hampton University, and Bowie State University, with Project Kaleidoscope of the Association of American Colleges and Universities to enhance professional development opportunities for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) faculty and expand the national discourse on broadening participation in undergraduate STEM education by involving Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This workshop presents an opportunity to capture the best practices of HBCUs, which are known to result in positive outcomes for African American STEM students, and transfer them to a broader range of institution types. Two-hundred faculty and administrators are expected to attend the workshop.This initiative will help STEM faculty and institutions in the Capital Regional Network to build their knowledge of how students learn; develop their capacity for and use of best practices in STEM pedagogy; facilitate their use of effective inside- and outside-the-classroom STEM learning experiences; help to integrate research into the undergraduate courses and curriculum; and promote collaboration among faculty across the institutions in improving learning outcomes in STEM for majors and non-majors alike. It is expected that this regional network will sustain itself and will grow because of the infusion of a broader audience of STEM faculty and its track record in enhancing STEM faculty self-efficacy.