NSF INCLUDES DDLP American STEM Alliance Network Improvement Community

NSF包括设计和开发启动试点：美国STEM联盟网络改进社区专注于在高需求、以西班牙裔为主的美国原住民社区提供公平的STEM教育机会这一扩大参与的挑战。该项目将应用集体影响和网络改善社区合作变革战略，与西南部的三个学区(德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥、新墨西哥州法明顿和俄克拉何马州安达科)合作，为拉美裔和美洲原住民社区提供服务。为该项目提出的协作变更模型将利益相关者参与的集体影响重点与网络改进社区方法的战略迭代改进重点结合在一起。美国研究院(AIR)和美国STEM联盟(ASA)为这一努力提供了领导。该项目的一个主要特点是，它为现有联盟带来了社区参与、数据驱动的决策制定和机构协作的新方式，该联盟在目标人群中享有盛誉。该项目提出的快速周期研究设计将有助于理解社区如何制定更强大、更基于证据的方法，以应对在各种背景下扩大参与的重大挑战。该项目的目标是开发和测试一种与背景和文化相关的方法来解决STEM教育中的不平等问题。该项目建议促进在STEM教育途径中公平地获得连贯的支持。卡内基STEM卓越之路为参与地区提供工具和资源，以识别实践中的问题，并使用数据驱动的框架、经过验证的工具/技术和持续反馈来创建解决该问题的干预措施。项目评估的重点是记录合作变革战略、持续改进周期及其对体制政策和实践变革的贡献，这些变革需要为拉美裔和美洲原住民高中生创造更多获得严格STEM课程的机会。

The NSF INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilot: American STEM Alliance Network Improvement Community focuses on the broadening participation challenge of providing equitable access to STEM education in high-need, majority Hispanic and Native American communities. The project will apply both collective impact and network improvement community collaborative change strategies in their effort with three school districts in the Southwest serving majority Hispanic and Native American communities (San Antonio, TX, Farmington, NM, and Andarko, OK). The proposed model of collaborative change for this project combines the stakeholder engagement focus of collective impact with the strategic, iterative improvement emphasis of the networked improvement community approaches. The American Institutes of Research (AIR) and the American STEM Alliance (ASA) provide leadership for this effort. A key feature of this project is that it brings new ways of community engagement, data driven decision making, and institutional collaboration to an existing Alliance with an established reputation with the target population. The rapid cycle study design proposed by this project will contribute to understanding how communities can develop stronger, more evidence based approaches to addressing the grand challenge of broadening participation across a variety of contexts. The goal of this project is to develop and test a contextually, and culturally relevant approach to addressing inequities in STEM education. The project proposes to promote equitable access to a coherent continuum of support in STEM education pathways. The Carnegie STEM Excellence Pathway provides the tools and resources for the participating districts to identify a problem of practice and create an intervention to address that problem using a data-driven framework, proven tools/techniques, and continuous feedback. The project evaluation focuses on documenting the collaborative change strategies, continuous improvement cycles, and their contribution to the changes in institutional policy and practice required to create increased access to rigorous STEM courses for Hispanic and Native American high school students.