I-Corps L: Implementing Systemic Change around Equity in Mathematics

I-Corps L：围绕数学公平实施系统性变革

• 批准号: 1547057
• 负责人: Eden Badertscher
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Education Development Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-15 至 2016-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1547057&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Implementing; Systemic; Change; around

Through the NSF Innovation Corps for Learning Program, (I-Corps L), this project will develop ways to increase the scale and impact of a professional development program that helps teachers to improve the mathematics skills of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Children from certain economic backgrounds face greater challenges in graduating from school than just passing classes and earning good grades. To address this problem, the Designing for Equity by Thinking in and about Mathematics or "DEbT-M" program provides a meaningful solution to helping teachers and schools connect with marginalized student populations. DEbT-M helps teachers build the unique understandings and skills to support disadvantaged students in their classrooms. Students from urban settings in particular face challenges navigating educational systems that typically disadvantage and inhibit them from coming to see themselves as capable and successful students of mathematics. DEbT-M focuses on creating successful professional communities around mathematics teachers so they can reach and assist their struggling student to succeed.Professional development programs can improve the skills of individual educators. However professional development alone has been insufficient in helping K-12 districts solve systemic problems. Systemic and organizational issues such as racial equity, meeting needs of special populations, and overcoming educational obstacles associated with poverty require more complex levels of change. The DEbT-M innovation provides a systematic approach to identifying, creating awareness of, and progressively impacting these organizational and teaching challenges in collaboration with target urban districts. The DEbT-M project, has built a foundational experience for district teams that supports districts in uncovering systemic inequity and identifying key leverage areas within their systems. With this knowledge, districts have been shown to be able to act in conjunction with follow-up that emphasizes collaboration to tackle identified issues. Joint definition of measures of success and assessment of impact and change are also essential to the DEbT-M process. Through I-Corps L, the Educational Development Center (EDC) will work to expand the benefits of DebT-M to a greater number of K-12 teachers and develop methods to sustain the program in a self-supporting manner.

通过 NSF 创新军团学习计划 (I-Corps L)，该项目将开发各种方法来扩大专业发展计划的规模和影响力，帮助教师提高来自弱势背景的学生的数学技能。来自某些经济背景的孩子在毕业时面临着更大的挑战，而不仅仅是通过课程并取得好成绩。 为了解决这个问题，“通过数学思考实现公平设计”或“DEbT-M”计划提供了一个有意义的解决方案，帮助教师和学校与边缘化学生群体建立联系。 DEbT-M 帮助教师建立独特的理解和技能，以支持课堂上的弱势学生。 来自城市环境的学生尤其面临着教育系统的挑战，这些系统通常对他们不利并阻碍他们将自己视为有能力和成功的数学学生。 DEbT-M 专注于围绕数学教师创建成功的专业社区，以便他们能够接触并帮助陷入困境的学生取得成功。专业发展计划可以提高教育工作者个人的技能。 然而，仅靠专业发展不足以帮助 K-12 学区解决系统性问题。 种族平等、满足特殊人群的需求以及克服与贫困相关的教育障碍等系统性和组织性问题需要更复杂的变革。 DEbT-M 创新提供了一种系统方法，可以与目标城市地区合作识别、提高认识并逐步影响这些组织和教学挑战。 DEbT-M 项目为地区团队积累了基础经验，支持地区发现系统性不平等并确定系统内的关键杠杆领域。 有了这些知识，各地区已被证明能够结合后续行动采取行动，强调合作解决已发现的问题。联合定义成功衡量标准以及评估影响和变革对于 DEbT-M 流程也至关重要。通过 I-Corps L，教育发展中心 (EDC) 将努力将 DebT-M 的好处扩大到更多的 K-12 教师，并开发以自负盈亏的方式维持该计划的方法。