Creating a Model for Sustainable Ambitious Mathematics Programs in High-Need Settings: a Researcher-Practitioner Collaboration

中学数学教育的一个长期挑战是扩大对STEM的参与。支持这一目标的学校和学区改革可能难以持续。这一实施和改进项目将研究在高需求中学进行成功的、雄心勃勃的数学改革努力。其目标是开发资源和工具，以支持其他高需求学校和学区改造和维持其数学课程。该模型侧重于变革所需的资源以及在数学教与学中支持或制约变革的组织方面。该项目团队包括成功转变数学教学以更好地支持学生学习的学区合作伙伴。该项目将开发一个模型，以便从组织的角度理解支持雄心勃勃的数学教与学改革的需求和资源。需求是对教学系统中需要满足的物理资源或努力的要求。资源是满足需求所需的物质、人力、教学和组织需求。该项目将通过研究人员、专业发展领导者、学生、教师、教练和管理人员的合作来开发该模型，以：(1)了解在高需求环境下实施雄心勃勃的中学数学项目时在整个学校或地区产生的需求；(2)确定满足需求并因此维持该项目所需的资源和组织动态；以及(3)阐明在高需求环境下可持续的雄心勃勃的中学数学项目的模型，该模型在一系列实施环境中具有有效性。为了在多次迭代中开发模型，该项目将检查与实施雄心勃勃的数学计划相关的需求和资源、利益相关者的观点、组织结构以及计划的目标和实施。该项目还将进行系统的文献审查，以汇集成功地区的研究成果和其他研究成果。数据收集和分析过程将包括访谈、文档分析、人工制品收集和项目四个阶段的观察。参与者将包括学生、教师、教学支持人员和管理人员(来自学校和地区)。探索研究PRK-12计划(DRK-12)旨在通过研究和开发新的创新和方法，显著提高Pre-K-12学生和教师在科学、技术、工程和数学方面的学习和教学。DRK-12计划中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究以及为项目提供理论和经验证明的先前研究和开发工作的基础上。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

A long-standing challenge in secondary mathematics education is broadening participation in STEM. Reform of schools and districts to support this goal can be challenging to sustain. This implementation and improvement project will study a successful, ambitious mathematics reform effort in high-needs secondary schools. The goal is to develop resources and tools to support other high-needs schools and districts in transforming and sustaining their mathematics programs. The model focuses on the resources required for change and the aspects of the organization that support or constrain change in mathematics teaching and learning. The project team includes school district partners that have successfully transformed mathematics teaching to better support students’ learning. The project will develop a model for understanding the demands and resources from an organizational perspective that support ambitious mathematics teaching and learning reforms. Demands are requirements for physical resources or efforts that need to be met in the instructional system. Resources are the material, human, instructional, and organizational requirements needed to address demands. The project will develop the model through a collaboration of researchers, professional development leaders, students, teachers, coaches, and administrators to: (1) understand the demands created throughout a school or district when implementing an ambitious secondary mathematics program in a high-need context; (2) identify the resources and organizational dynamics necessary to address the demands and thus sustain the program; and (3) articulate a model for a sustainable ambitious secondary mathematics program in high-need settings that has validity across a range of implementation contexts. To develop the model over multiple iterations, the project will examine the demands and resources related to implementing an ambitious mathematics program, the perspectives of stakeholders, the organizational structure, and the program goals and implementation. The project will also conduct a systematic literature review to bring together findings from the successful district and other research findings. The data collection and analysis process will include interviews, document analysis, collection of artifacts, and observations across four phases of the project. Participants will include students, teachers, instructional support personnel, and administrators (from schools and the district). The Discovery Research preK-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics by preK-12 students and teachers, through the research and development of new innovations and approaches. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for the projects.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.