Workshop for Writing Grants for Early Career Scholars in STEM and Learning Sciences Focused on Racial Equity

美国和STEM领域持续存在的种族不公正和不平等现象强调了需要创造性的、基于研究的方法来解决这些问题。特别是，需要创造性的方法来研究和解决STEM教育中的种族不公正和不公平现象，其中种族平等和STEM学习都得到了仔细和周到的考虑。该项目的重点是支持新兴学者谁有新的想法和方法接近种族平等在他们的奖学金和工作。该研讨会在一年的时间里作为一系列会议实施，将支持STEM教育和学习科学的早期职业学者准备提交给国家科学基金会的提案。该研讨会旨在为那些在五年内获得博士学位的学者提供服务，这些学者以前从未担任过联邦资助赠款的主要研究者或共同主要研究者。参与者将包括早期职业学者谁专注于种族平等的工作。很多时候，这些学者表示，他们很少或根本没有接受过撰写资助申请书的培训。十名参与者将通过为期一年的一系列研讨会，其中包括赠款写作过程的不同方面，包括通过征求阅读，写一个叙述，并创建一个预算项目的支持。除了这些讲习班外，项目方法还考虑到专业网络和辅导的重要性，并参考了实践社区理论框架和关于辅导做法的现有研究。因此，每个早期职业学者将与该领域的高级导师配对，其工作与学员的工作一致。早期职业学者研讨会的成果将包括一个完整或接近完整的提案，该提案与NSF学习研究部的一个项目保持一致。该研讨会将突出战略发展职业生涯的建议沿着与考虑准备其他方案的建议。更一般地说，研讨会将创建一个模型，以支持和指导早期职业学者提出以种族平等工作为中心的STEM教育项目，并将能够确定成功撰写赠款提案的需求领域。所有讲习班材料将免费向公众提供。探索研究preK-12计划（DRK-12）旨在通过研究和开发创新资源，模型和工具，显着提高preK-12学生和教师的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的学习和教学。DRK-12计划中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究和先前的研究和开发工作的基础上，这些研究和开发工作为拟议项目提供了理论和经验依据。该项目还通过推进非正式STEM学习（AISL），CS for All：Research and RPPs，以及学生和教师创新技术体验（ITEST）计划获得资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Persistent racial injustices and inequities in the United States and in STEM fields underscore the need for creative, research-based approaches to address these concerns. In particular, creative approaches are needed for studying and addressing racial injustices and inequities in STEM education, where racial equity and STEM learning are both given careful and thoughtful consideration. This project focuses on supporting emerging scholars who have new ideas and approaches for approaching racial equity in their scholarship and work. This workshop, implemented as a series of sessions over the course of a year, will support early career scholars in STEM education and the learning sciences in preparing proposals to submit to the National Science Foundation. The workshop is designed to serve scholars who are within five years of obtaining their PhD and who have never before been principal investigator or co-principal investigator of a federally-funded grant. Participants will include early career scholars who focus their work on racial equity. Too often, such scholars have indicated that they have received little to no training on writing grant proposals. Ten participants will be supported by the project through a year-long series of workshops that include different aspects of the grant writing process including reading through a solicitation, writing a narrative, and creating a budget. In addition to these workshop sessions, the project approach also considers the importance of a professional network and of mentoring, informed by a Communities of Practice theoretical framework and existing research on mentoring practices. As such, each early career scholar will be paired with a senior mentor in the field whose work is aligned with the mentee's. The outcomes of the workshop for early career scholars will include a complete or nearly complete proposal that is aligned with one of the programs within the NSF's Division of Research on Learning. The workshop will highlight strategies for developing CAREER proposals along with considerations for preparing proposals for other programs. More generally, the workshop will create a model for supporting and mentoring early career scholars in proposing STEM education projects centered in racial equity work and will be able to identify areas of need for successful grant proposal writing. All workshop materials will be made freely available to the general public. The Discovery Research preK-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools. 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 proposed projects. This project is also funded through the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL), CS for All: Research and RPPs, and Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) programs.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.