BPRC Planning Grant: Nurturing Resilient Students and Teachers

历史上的黑人学院和大学-本科项目（HBCU-UP）为开展机构自我分析和开展研究提供支持，为扩大参与研究中心做准备。扩大参与研究中心有望成为严格研究和广泛传播批判性教学法和文化敏感干预措施的国家中心，这些方法有助于hbcu在教育非裔美国人STEM本科生方面取得成功。弗吉尼亚州立大学的BPRC计划项目旨在建立一个持续的学术丰富项目系统，使学生，特别是那些在STEM领域代表性不足的学生，在小学时进入一系列协调的干预措施，并在大学时退出。在整个项目的录取过程中，学生将有机会利用他们的技能和经验回馈社区。对每个年级队列的干预的重点也将是鼓励最优秀和最聪明的人自己成为数学和科学教师。STEM教育中心是一个多层次的教师和指导发展计划，为教师和学生提供学习和准备的每个阶段。STEM教育中心方法的基石是将hbcu与当地学区配对的preK-16模式。STEM教育中心旨在培养学生对STEM学科的兴趣、动力和坚持，并在各个发展阶段培养有效的教学和指导技能。该项目将使学生、教师、大学教职员工、导师、教育管理人员和社区利益相关者接触到各种全年社区参与和夏季充实项目。该培训旨在提高学生学习STEM学科的动力和毅力，提高这些学科的教与学的有效性。目标受众是来自学校的学生，在这些学校里，大多数学生在国家规定的标准化考试中成绩通常处于最低的四分之一。这个项目将动员一大批潜在的支持者，他们的目标与学校系统相同：提高标准化考试成绩，尤其是数学和科学考试成绩。此外，这个项目还有一个额外的好处，那就是最终培养出训练有素的数学和科学教师，他们愿意、有能力并致力于在这些学区工作。每个年级的干预措施也将被设计为解决我们的研究揭示的影响非裔美国学生STEM学习的关键社会心理和认知因素。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。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) provides support to undertake an institutional self-analysis and conduct research in preparation for a Broadening Participation Research Center. Broadening Participation Research Centers are expected to serve as a national hub for the rigorous study and broad dissemination of the critical pedagogies and culturally sensitive interventions that contribute to the success of HBCUs in educating African American STEM undergraduates. The BPRC Planning project at Virginia State University seeks to build a system of sustained academic enrichment programs that will allow students, particularly those who are under-represented in STEM fields, to enter a series of coordinated interventions while in elementary school and exit them when in college. While matriculating throughout the program, students will be given opportunities to use their skills and experiences to give back to their community. The focus of the interventions with each grade level cohort will also be to encourage the best and brightest to become Math and Science teachers themselves.The Center for STEM Education is a multi-tiered teacher and mentoring development program for teachers and students at every stage of learning and readiness. The cornerstone of the Center for STEM Education approach is the preK-16 model that pairs HBCUs with local school districts. The Center for STEM Education is designed to develop student interest, motivation, and persistence in STEM disciplines and to cultivate effective teaching and mentoring skills at all levels of development. This program will expose students, teachers, university faculty, mentors, education administrators, and community stakeholders to a variety of year-round community engagement and summer enrichment programing. The training is designed to increase the motivation and persistence of students in STEM disciplines and enhance the effectiveness of teaching and learning in those disciplines. The target audience are students from schools where most students routinely score in the bottom achievement quartile of state-mandated standardized tests. This project will mobilize a potential army of supporters with the same objective as the school system: increasing standardized test scores, particularly in math and science. In addition, this project has the added benefit of eventually developing well-trained math and science teachers that are willing, able and committed to work in those very school districts. The interventions at each grade level will also be designed to address the key psychosocial and cognitive factors that have been revealed by our research to impact STEM learning in African American students.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.