Leadership through Equity and Advocacy Development in STEM

通过平等和倡导STEM发展的领导力（LEAD-STEM）是休斯顿大学的Noyce Track 3硕士教学奖学金（MTF）项目。 LEAD-STEM将关注美国城市高中有效的中学科学和数学教师领导者的严重短缺。它还将利用大休斯顿地区目前的人口统计数据反映美国未来人口统计数据的报告。该项目将在大休斯顿地区的高需求学区发展，指导和留住STEM教师领导者。 为此，LEAD-STEM将强调在中学STEM课程中纳入文化敏感教学。该项目活动将使LEAD-STEM MTF具备所需的知识和技能：在teachHOUSTON计划中指导中学STEM副教师;与整个地区和州的在职教师合作;并在地方，区域和国家层面担任变革推动者。此外，项目活动将侧重于：1）技术，探究式教学和CRT的综合作用，以支持在中等，代表性不足的学生中发展STEM概念; 2）MTFs针对CRT的教学实践的改进;以及3）教师领导技能的发展。该项目与国家数学和科学倡议（NSMI）和大休斯顿高需求学区（全国人口和面积最大的学区之一）合作，将招募和培养30名中学科学和数学教师，担任公立学校校园的教师领导，这些学校的学生入学率偏低。LEAD-STEM MTF将获得课程和教学硕士学位，重点是STEM教育。他们将参加由项目负责人指导的暑期专业发展经验和教学辅导。在地方上设计和提供专业发展的经验将有助于中期工作队通过与国家所罗门群岛支助团的伙伴关系和支助，过渡到国家一级的领导地位。将STEM教学建立在对文化敏感的知识体系中，并利用这些知识来解决STEM教育中的公平和学习差距，这两者的结合可能会产生一种可推广的教学模式。这个项目也可以作为全国其他教师领导者发展工作的典范。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

Leadership through Equity and Advocacy Development in STEM (LEAD-STEM) is a Noyce Track 3 Master Teaching Fellowships (MTF) project at the University of Houston. LEAD-STEM will focus on the acute shortage of effective secondary science and mathematics teacher leaders in America's urban high schools. It will also capitalize on reports that the Greater Houston area's current demographics reflect the future demographics of the United States. The project will develop, mentor, and retain STEM teacher leaders in high-need school districts in the Greater Houston area. To this end, LEAD-STEM will emphasize incorporation of culturally responsive teaching (CRT) in secondary STEM curricula. The project activities will equip the LEAD-STEM MTFs with the knowledge and skills needed to: mentor secondary STEM preservice teachers in the teachHOUSTON Program; work collaboratively with in-service teachers throughout the district and state; and serve as change agents at the local, regional and national levels. Additionally, project activities will focus on: 1) the combined roles of technology, inquiry-based instruction, and CRT in supporting the development of STEM concepts in secondary, underrepresented students; 2) the refinement of MTFs' instructional practices specific to CRT; and 3) the development of teachers' leadership skills. In partnership with the National Math and Science Initiative (NSMI) and the Greater Houston high-need school district (among the country's largest in population and area), this project will recruit and prepare 30 secondary science and mathematics teachers to serve as teacher-leaders on public school campuses with high enrollment of underrepresented students. LEAD-STEM MTFs will earn a Curriculum and Instruction master's degree with an emphasis in STEM Education. They will participate in summer professional development experiences and instructional coaching guided by project leaders. The experiences of designing and delivering professional development locally will help the MTFs transition to leadership at the national level, through the partnership and support of NMSI. The combination of grounding STEM instruction in culturally responsive pedagogies and using this knowledge to address equity and learning disparities in STEM education may produce a generalizable model of instruction. This project may also serve as a model for other teacher leader development efforts across the country.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.