An HBCU Community of Practice to Prepare and Support Teachers to Teach Rigorous Computer Science Courses in Culturally Diverse School Districts

HBCU 实践社区为教师在文化多元化的学区教授严格的计算机科学课程提供准备和支持

• 批准号: 2031464
• 负责人: Erin Lynch
• 金额: $ 199.85万
• 依托单位: QUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES NETWORK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-11-01 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2031464&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HBCU; Community; Practice; Prepare; Support

While Black people comprise 13 percent of the U.S. population, they represent only 7 percent of the computing workforce. Even more unsettling, of the many computational occupations, the majority of that 7 percent are “computer support specialists.” HBCUs are uniquely positioned to increase the number and percentage of Black people in the computing workforce. Of the 100 HBCUs that qualify for federal support, 11 are among the top 100 postsecondary institutions for graduating Black students in Computer Sciences and Math. Moreover, the educational outcomes for underrepresented students in college often depend on the instruction they received in high school. Therefore, the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network in partnership with L.L. Burge and Associates, LLC will leverage HBCUs to facilitate a series of professional development trainings for high school CS teachers in districts that are diverse socially, culturally, and economically. This will not only increase the number of high school teachers qualified to teach CS courses, but will also build a community of educators, HBCU CS departments, and inclusive CS curriculum developers. The QEM Network in partnership with L.L. Burge and Associates, LLC will plan and conduct a series of culturally responsive Exploring Computer Science (ECS) PD trainings for teachers in SCED school districts. The project builds upon a previous NSF-funded project, CS 10K: The Partnership for Early Engagement in Computer Science High School (PEECS-HS) Program: Exposing Students to Computer Science in Washington, DC Public Schools project, which provided professional development to in-service teachers in the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS). The current project will position two HBCUs (Florida Memorial University and Kentucky State University) as central to a strategy that will provide a deeper context for the training and contribute to long-term community building with adjacent school districts. The two HBCUs have ABET accredited computer science programs and state accredited teacher education programs. The project goals are to: (1) Position HBCUs as a strategic resource for SCED school districts to receive high quality, socially conscious CS PD for their high school teachers; (2) Use ECS to increase the number of high school teachers in SCED school districts with the training and credentials necessary to teach CS courses and prepare high school students to pass CS AP exams; and (3) Build a community ofpractice/change whereby newly credentialed CS teachers in SCED districts can form long-term reciprocal bonds with other educators from their districts, HBCU CS departments and the ECS network.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.

虽然黑人占美国人口的13%，但他们只占计算劳动力的7%。更令人不安的是，在许多计算职业中，这7%的人中的大多数是“计算机支持专家”。HBCU具有独特的优势，可以增加黑人在计算劳动力中的数量和比例。在100个有资格获得联邦支持的HBCU中，有11个是计算机科学和数学专业黑人毕业生的前100所高等教育机构。此外，大学中代表性不足的学生的教育成果往往取决于他们在高中接受的指导。因此，少数民族优质教育网络与L.L.伯奇和联营公司，有限责任公司将利用HBCUs促进高中CS教师在社会，文化和经济多样化的地区的一系列专业发展培训。这不仅将增加有资格教授CS课程的高中教师的数量，还将建立一个由教育工作者、HBCU CS部门和包容性CS课程开发人员组成的社区。QEM网络与L.L. Burge and Associates，LLC将为SCED学区的教师计划和开展一系列文化响应的探索计算机科学（ECS）PD培训。该项目建立在以前NSF资助的项目，CS 10 K：早期参与计算机科学高中（PEECS-HS）计划的合作伙伴关系：让学生接触华盛顿的计算机科学，DC公立学校项目，该项目为哥伦比亚特区公立学校（DCPS）的在职教师提供专业发展。目前的项目将把两个HBCU（佛罗里达纪念大学和肯塔基州州立大学）定位为战略的核心，这将为培训提供更深层次的背景，并有助于与相邻学区的长期社区建设。这两个HBCU拥有ABET认证的计算机科学课程和国家认证的教师教育课程。该项目的目标是：（1）将HBCUs定位为SCED学区的战略资源，为其高中教师提供高质量，具有社会意识的CS PD;（2）使用ECS增加SCED学区的高中教师数量，这些教师具有教授CS课程和准备高中学生通过CS AP考试所需的培训和证书;及（3）建立实践/改变社群，让SCED地区的新教师与其他地区的教育工作者建立长期的互惠关系，HBCU CS部门和ECS网络。该奖项反映了NSF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进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.