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扩大参与挑战，为高需求，大多数西班牙裔和美洲原住民社区提供公平的STEM教育机会。该项目将在西南地区的三个学区（德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥、新墨西哥州法明顿和OK的安达科）中应用集体影响和网络改进社区协作变革策略。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的焦点与网络化改进社区方法的战略、迭代改进的重点结合起来。美国研究院（AIR）和美国STEM联盟（ASA）为这项工作提供领导。该项目的一个关键特点是，它为现有的联盟带来了社区参与、数据驱动决策和机构合作的新方式，并在目标人群中建立了声誉。本项目提出的快速循环研究设计将有助于了解社区如何开发更强大、更基于证据的方法，以应对在各种情况下扩大参与的巨大挑战。该项目的目标是开发和测试一种与环境和文化相关的方法来解决STEM教育中的不平等问题。该项目建议促进公平获得STEM教育途径中连贯连续的支持。卡内基STEM卓越途径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/技术和持续的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协作变革战略、持续改进周期，以及它们对机构政策和实践变化的贡献，这些政策和实践需要为西班牙裔和美洲原住民高中学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.