NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant: Developing a Shared Vision for Supporting the Mathematics Identities of Underrepresented Individuals

这项NSF包括计划拨款由NSF纳入全国工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者的学习社区(NSF Includes)资助，这是一项综合性的全国性倡议，旨在通过关注多样性、包容性和扩大对STEM的参与来加强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。这笔规划赠款的目标是制定一个共同的愿景，以应对日益扩大的参与挑战，即来自代表性不足群体的个人没有平等机会获得支持作为数学学习者、实干家和专业人员的积极身份的机会和经验，方法是将正式和非正式的数学教育领导人聚集在一起，就如何共同努力应对这一挑战制定共同愿景。创建这一共同的愿景将是实现国家科学基金的重要一步，其目标包括增加那些在STEM领域中传统上得不到充分服务和代表性的人的积极参与。该项目包括三项主要活动：研讨会、工作组和综合会议。为期三天的研讨会将包括代表整个K-12和高等教育数学教育生态系统的40名正式和非正式教育领导人，他们将开始建立社区，分享最佳做法和有待改进的领域，并阐明共同议程，其中包括为在扩大参与度挑战方面取得进展而需要解决的关键主题。由讲习班参加者组成的工作组将在讲习班结束后的六个月内每月举行视频会议。每个工作组都将侧重于讲习班上确定的一个关键专题，以便就如何通过五个工作组处理其专题提出建议，其中包括设计要素，包括可能需要哪些技术基础设施和研究。每个小组将生成一份报告，概述他们的调查结果，供PI小组在编写战略计划时使用。最后，PIS将在为期两天的综合会议上开会，将工作组的建议整合到一个公开传播的战略计划中，以建立一个合作网络，该网络将有可能改变代表不足的学生和专业人员在数学方面对自己的看法。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。

This NSF INCLUDES planning grant is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale. The goal of this planning grant is to develop a shared vision to address the broadening participation challenge that individuals from underrepresented groups do not have equitable access to opportunities and experiences that support positive identities as mathematical learners, doers, and professionals by bringing together formal and informal mathematics education leaders to develop a shared vision for how to work together to address this challenge. The creation this shared vision will constitute a significant step toward attaining the NSF INCLUDES objective of increasing the active participation of those who have been traditionally underserved and underrepresented in STEM fields.The project includes three primary activities: a workshop; working groups; and a synthesis meeting. The three-day workshop will include forty formal and informal education leaders representing the entire mathematics education ecosystem across K-12 and higher education to begin building community, sharing best practices and areas for improvement, and articulating a common agenda including key topics that will need to be addressed in order to make progress on the broadening participation challenge. Working groups composed of workshop participants will meet monthly by videoconference throughout the six months following the workshop. Each working group will focus on a key topic identified at the workshop in order to develop recommendations for how their topic might be addressed through the five INCLUDES design elements, including what technical infrastructure and research might be needed. Each group will generate a report providing an overview of their findings for use by the PI team in writing the strategic plan. Finally, the PIs will meet in a two-day synthesis meeting to integrate the recommendations of the working groups into a publicly disseminated strategic plan for a collaborative network that will have the potential to transform how underrepresented students and professionals view themselves in relation to mathematics.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.