Secure and Upgrade Computer Science in Classrooms through an Ecosystem with Scalability & Sustainability (SUCCESS)

美国超过20%的公立学校学生就读于农村地区的学校；然而，与郊区的学校相比，这些学校提供计算机科学（CS）课程的可能性较小，这导致了社会经济地位（SES）、种族和性别在计算机科学参与和成就方面的准入鸿沟和差异。农村地区难以将计算机科学纳入K-12课程的主要原因之一是缺乏具有计算机科学专业知识的教育工作者。此外，校长和辅导员往往没有意识到CS对与其社区相关的职业的重要性和普遍性。SUCCESS团队将通过设计一个生态系统来解决这些问题，包括地区和学校层面的支持，这将确保以农村为主的西弗吉尼亚所有中学生都能获得高质量的计算机科学教育，并了解计算机科学职业机会。为了实现增加CS访问的目标，SUCCESS将专门致力于增加教师CS内容知识，提高校长和辅导员对如何支持教师的理解，并向学生，教师，辅导员和校长传播CS职业意识。通过具有可扩展性和可持续性的生态系统（SUCCESS）保护和升级教室中的计算机科学，将建立一个生态系统，以增加获得计算机科学（CS）的机会，并使代表性不足的西弗吉尼亚州（WV）中学生参与CS。成功建立在西弗吉尼亚大学卓越STEM教育中心（CE-STEM）， Code.org （Code WV，在CE-STEM中，是他们的WV区域合作伙伴），WV教育部（WVDE）和罗利县学区之间建立的伙伴关系的基础上，通过解决从业者确定的关键目标来增加CS访问。该项目的目标是增加：1)教师CS内容知识，2)校长和辅导员了解如何支持教师确保所有学生都有CS访问，以及3)学生，教师，辅导员和校长对CS职业的认识。设计研究伙伴关系方法提供了基于研究的PD模型和其他活动的迭代和改进，包括来自SUCCESS合作伙伴的数据和输入，以及增加项目可以服务的教育工作者数量的能力。SUCCESS将采用高质量的现有计算机科学课程和PD计划，以提高WVBoE建立的16个职业集群对计算机科学的认识，满足两个州的课程要求。将建立一个支持职业集群的视频库，所有材料将提供给WV的所有教师。合作伙伴确定的其他计算机科学培训内容将通过WVDE在线系统创建和提供，供全州的教师使用，以获得计算机科学证书。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。

More than 20% of public-school students in the US attend schools in rural districts; however, these schools are less likely to offer computer science (CS) courses than those in suburban areas, contributing to the access divide and disparities in CS participation and achievement by socioeconomic status (SES), race, and gender. One of the primary reasons why integration of CS into the K-12 curriculum remains elusive for rural districts is the lack of educators with CS expertise. Additionally, principals and counselors are often unaware of the importance and prevalence of CS to careers relevant to their communities. The SUCCESS team will address these issues by designing an ecosystem, including district and school level supports, that will ensure that all middle school students in predominantly rural WV have access to high quality CS education and an understanding of CS career opportunities. To reach its goal of increased CS access, SUCCESS will specifically work to increase teacher CS content knowledge, improve principal and counselor understanding of how to support teachers, and spread awareness of CS careers for students, teachers, counselors and principals. Secure and Upgrade Computer Science in Classrooms through an Ecosystem with Scalability & Sustainability (SUCCESS), will build an ecosystem to increase access to Computer Science (CS) and participation of underrepresented West Virginia (WV) middle school students in CS. SUCCESS builds on an established partnership between West Virginia University Center for Excellence in STEM Education (CE-STEM), Code.org (Code WV, in CE-STEM, is their WV Regional partner), the WV Department of Education (WVDE), and the Raleigh County School District to increase CS access by addressing the objectives identified as crucial by practitioners. The goals of this project are to increase: 1) teacher CS content knowledge, 2) principal and counselor understanding of how to support teachers to ensure all students have CS access, and 3) the awareness of CS careers for students, teachers, counselors and principals. The design research partnership approach provides for iteration and improvement of the PD model and other activities based on research, including data and input from SUCCESS partners and the ability to increase the number of educators that the project can serve. SUCCESS will adapt a high-quality existing CS curriculum and PD program to increase awareness of CS in the 16 Career Clusters established by WVBoE, satisfying two state course requirements. A video library supporting the career clusters will be created and all materials made available to all teachers in WV. Other CS training content identified as needed by partners will be created and delivered through the WVDE online system for use by teachers throughout the state toward achieving CS credentials.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.