NSF INCLUDES DDLP: IM STEM

全国公平教育合作联盟基金会（NAPE）将与来自六个州（科罗拉多州，夏威夷州，新罕布什尔州，内华达州，犹他州和夏威夷州）的各种组织合作，形成山间STEM （IM STEM）项目，这是一个NSF包括设计和开发启动试点项目，旨在提高STEM教育的参与度并缩小成就差距，包括职业和技术教育。这些组织的项目影响着正规的STEM教育系统，包括：教育部；高等教育机构；州长支持STEM行动中心；大学;中学学区；社区学院;美国能源部国家实验室；企业，非营利组织和其他。参与这项工作的合作伙伴将确定针对共同目标集的有效实践，并创建一个模型，通过采用集体影响方法使其规模化。通过项目，参与的组织将创建一个共同的议程，确定共享的度量标准，实现相互加强的活动，并保持持续的沟通。这一努力直接解决了STEM劳动力缺乏多样性的问题；这是一个巨大的社会挑战，因为它对美国的创新、国家安全、环境安全和收入不平等产生了影响。IM STEM？我们的使命是增加在STEM教育中取得成功的学生的多样性，这将创造一个更加精通STEM的社会，确保多样化的STEM劳动力的贡献，并为进入高工资的STEM职业创造公平的竞争环境。IM STEM使大型资源充足的组织承担STEM中日益扩大的参与挑战的能力，将促进对创造性社会创新（如集体影响）如何创造变革性制度和文化变革的认识。收集、评估和推广有效的基于研究的解决方案，以缩小STEM领域的公平差距，将促进STEM的包容性。最初，IM STEM项目将试点扩大NAPE的专业发展（PD）项目的规模——公平和微信接触和教育每个学生的项目改进过程——这些项目已被证明对STEM和职业技术教育（CTE）的公平差距产生了影响。六个参与国有兴趣扩大其目前小规模实施的NAPE PD项目，并将纳入选定的新兴实践。这一设计和开发启动试点将为确定支持机制以扩大PD提供工具，并通过参与合作伙伴的其他有效实践确定额外的扩大机会。这些努力有可能形成一种模式，将其推广到其他想要推广有效做法的州。

The National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation (NAPE) will partner with a diverse group of organizations from six states (CO, ID, NM, NV, UT, and WY) to form the Intermountain STEM (IM STEM) project, an NSF INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilot project focused on the goal of increasing the participation and closing achievement gaps in STEM education, including career and technical education. These organizations whose programs impact the formal STEM education system include: Departments of Education; Higher Education agencies; governor supported STEM Action Centers; universities; secondary school districts; community colleges; Department of Energy National Labs; businesses, non-profits and others. The partners in this effort will identify effective practices focused on the common set of objectives and create a model to bring them to scale by employing a collective impact approach. Through the project, the participating organizations will create a common agenda, identify shared metrics, implement mutually reinforcing activities, and maintain continuous communication. This effort addresses directly the lack of diversity of the STEM workforce; a societal challenge of significant magnitude because of its impact on innovation, national security, environmental safety, and income inequality in the US. The IM STEM?s mission to increase the diversity of students who are successful in STEM education will create a more STEM literate society, ensure the contributions of a diverse STEM workforce, and level the playing field for entrance into high wage STEM careers.The capacity of IM STEM to bring large well-resourced organizations to bear on the broadening participation challenges in STEM will advance the knowledge of how creative social innovations, like collective impact, can create transformative institutional and cultural change. The collection, evaluation and scaling of effective research-based solutions to close equity gaps in STEM will advance inclusion in STEM. Initially, the IM STEM project will pilot the scaling of NAPE's professional development (PD) programs - Program Improvement Process for Equity and Micromessaging to Reach and Teach Every Student - that have proven to impact equity gaps in STEM and career and technical education (CTE). The six participating states are interested in scaling their current small scale implementation of NAPE's PD programs and will also incorporate selected emerging practices. This design and development launch pilot will provide the vehicle for identifying support mechanisms for scaling of the PD and the identification of additional scaling opportunities with other effective practices of the participating partners. These efforts have the potential to develop a model for expansion to other states wanting to scale effective practices.