Cambio: A Professional Development Approach for Building Latinx-focused Cultural Competence in Informal Science Education Institutions

该项目属于推进非正式STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）学习计划的发展创新项目，旨在建设非正式科学教育（ISE）机构的专业能力，促进拉丁裔受众的有效参与。探索博物馆和圣何塞儿童发现博物馆（CDM）之间的合作，坎比奥是一个专业发展项目，其前提是发展拉丁裔社区和STEM学习的文化能力，以及组织变革能力，将使ISE机构能够提高他们包容拉丁裔社区、文化和观众的能力。Cambio的最终目标是通过建立ISE领域的能力，使拉丁裔有效参与非正式的STEM学习，从而扩大对STEM的参与。ISE机构和其他校外项目和组织在激励和培养下一代拉丁裔STEM学生、员工和教育工作者方面发挥着重要作用。Cambio的参与者将加深他们对与这一角色相关的研究和实践的参与，并了解在他们的机构中扩大拉丁裔参与可以和应该是什么样子。Cambio的学员将与专业讲师和教练合作，并作为同龄人一起，将他们所学到的知识应用到他们在本国机构实施的现实世界的战略计划中。Cambio项目的核心是为ISE机构及其工作人员创建一个专业发展（PD）模型，该模型综合了：(a)拉丁裔参与非正式STEM学习策略的当前知识；(b)以前nsf资助的项目，利用这些知识为该领域指明了前进的道路；(c)清洁发展机制的文化能力学习研究所专业发展计划，以建立博物馆的文化能力、包容性和组织变革。这种综合将形成一个强大的专业发展平台，有可能在非正式科学机构与拉丁读者合作的方式上创造一个全领域的转变。Cambio专业发展计划将包括：一个新的专业发展框架和课程，将惠及15个机构的54名从业人员；开发和传播专业发展工具和资源，以供ISE从业员使用；专注于拉丁裔参与非正式STEM学习的实践社区；Cambio PD模型有效性的证据；以及形成性和总结性评估产生的知识，这些知识将为ISE的其他工作提供信息，这些工作的重点是提高拉丁裔学生对STEM的参与。STEM重点将贯穿整个专业发展经验，明确关注拉丁文化和身份与STEM之间的交叉领域。从业者将提高他们在设计体验方面的专业知识，这些体验将以明确重视拉丁裔身份的方式激发情感参与，激发好奇心和兴奋。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project in the Advancing Informal STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Learning program's Innovations in Development track aims to build professional capacity in Informal Science Education (ISE) institutions for effective engagement of Latinx audiences. A collaboration between The Exploratorium and the Children's Discovery Museum (CDM) of San Jose, Cambio is a professional development project based on the premise that developing cultural competence specific to Latinx communities and STEM learning, together with organizational change capacity, will enable ISE institutions to improve their ability to be inclusive of Latinx communities, cultures, and audiences. Cambio's ultimate aim is to broaden participation in STEM by building the ISE field's capacity to effectively engage Latinxs in informal STEM learning. ISE institutions and other out-of-school programs and organizations have an important role to play in inspiring and preparing the next generation of Latinx STEM students, employees, and educators. Cambio participants will deepen their engagement with the research and practice relevant to this role and build an understanding of what broadening Latinx engagement can and should look like in their institutions. Working with expert instructors and coaches, and together as peers, Cambio participants will apply what they learn to real-world strategic initiatives they implement at their home institutions.The heart of the Cambio project is the creation of a professional development (PD) model for ISE institutions and their staff that synthesizes: (a) current knowledge about strategies for Latinx engagement in informal STEM learning; (b) previous NSF-funded projects that leveraged that knowledge to chart a way forward for the field; and (c) CDM's Cultural Competence Learning Institute professional development program for building cultural competence, inclusion, and organizational change in museums. This synthesis will form a robust professional development platform that has the potential to create a field-wide shift in the way informal science institutions approach working with Latinx audiences. The Cambio professional development program will include: a new professional development framework and curriculum that will reach 54 practitioners in 15 institutions; the development and dissemination of professional development tools and resources for use by ISE practitioners; a Community of Practice focused on Latinx engagement in informal STEM learning; evidence of the efficacy of the Cambio PD model; and knowledge generated by formative and summative evaluation that will inform other ISE efforts focused on increasing the participation of Latinxs in STEM. A STEM focus will be woven throughout the professional development experience that focuses explicitly on areas of intersection between Latinx culture and identities and STEM. Practitioners will increase their expertise in designing experiences that will invoke emotional engagement, spark curiosity and excitement, in ways that explicitly value Latinx identities.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.