Developing Digitally-rich Urban Teacher Leaders: Fostering and Sustaining a STEM Culture of Belonging, Access, Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

该项目旨在满足国家对培养高效STEM教师领导者的需求，这些教师领导者被称为硕士教学研究员，准备成为STEM教学和学习中归属、获取、正义、公平、多样性和包容性等问题的变革推动者。在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，学校运营受到干扰，这使得K-12学校中存在的严重不平等现象更加明显，在为高需求学生服务的学校中更是如此，呼吁采取行动解决这些问题。拟议的项目首先通过扩大参与的经验丰富的模范STEM教师在包容性教学实践中的知识和技能来解决这些问题。这是通过研究生课程和专业导师以内容为中心的指导来完成的。为了进一步扩大影响，该项目支持参与的教师发展作为教师领导的技能和性格，并支持他们发挥领导作用。他们的领导是为了帮助其他STEM教师创造安全、包容和文化响应的STEM学习环境。课程作业和指导的领导经验将帮助教师发展这些技能。通过这个项目，参与的教师准备好将丰富的数字资源运用到他们的教学中，并提高所有学生对STEM的期望，而不考虑种族、性别、性取向、语言、能力和经济背景等身份标志。通过行动研究项目，参与的教师成为更多反思的实践者，并确定影响学生学习的自我提升机会。罗彻斯特大学华纳教育与人类发展学院的这个项目包括与罗彻斯特市学区、埃尔米拉市学区、詹姆斯敦市学区和罗彻斯特博物馆和科学中心的合作。该项目旨在从纽约州西部的三个合作地区招募19名7-12年级的优秀和经验丰富的数学和科学教师，参加为期五年的项目，最终获得包容和特殊教育硕士学位，并获得K-12学校教师领导力、城市教学与领导力和数字化教学的高级证书。获选参加该计划的受奖人将参加连续的领导力系列研讨会，以进一步发展他们的领导力技能，并指导他们在家乡地区实施一项变革计划。研究员还将获得指导和专业学习方面的重点指导。外部评估旨在检查该项目以何种方式发展参与教师的数字化丰富教学实践、文化可持续教学实践和教师领导实践。这个Track 3：硕士教学奖学金项目是由Robert Noyce教师奖学金计划（Noyce）支持的。Noyce计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为有效的K-12 STEM教师，并支持经验丰富的模范K-12教师成为高需求学区的STEM大师教师。它还支持对高需求学区K-12 STEM教师的有效性和留任率的研究。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。

The project aims to serve the national need of developing highly effective STEM teacher leaders, referred to a Master Teaching Fellows, prepared to be agents of change around issues of belonging, access, justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in STEM teaching and learning. The disruptions in school operations experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic have made even more visible serious inequities that exist in K-12 schools, and even more so in schools serving high-need students – calling for action to address these issues. The proposed project addresses these issues by first expanding the knowledge and skills in inclusive teaching practices of participating experienced and exemplary STEM teachers. This is accomplished through graduate coursework and content-focused coaching from professional mentors. To further broaden impact, the project supports the development of participating teachers’ skills and dispositions as teacher leaders and supports them in enacting their leadership. Their leadership is intended to assist other STEM teachers in creating safe, inclusive, and culturally responsive STEM learning environments. Coursework and mentored leadership experiences will help teachers develop these skills. Through this project, participating teachers are prepared to leverage digitally-rich resources into their teaching and to posses increased expectations in STEM for all students regardless of identity markers, including race, gender, sexual orientation, language, ability, and economic background. Through an action research project, participating teachers become more reflective practitioners and identify opportunities for self-improvement that will impact student learning.This project in the Warner School of Education & Human Development at the University of Rochester includes partnerships with the Rochester City School District, Elmira City School District, Jamestown City School District, and the Rochester Museum & Science Center. The project aims to recruit a cadre of 19 grade 7-12 exemplary and experienced mathematics and science teachers from across the three partner districts in Western New York for a five-year program leading to an MS in Inclusion and Special Education, along with advanced certificates in Teacher Leadership, Urban Teaching & Leadership, and Digitally-Rich Teaching and Learning in K-12 Schools. Fellows selected to the program are engaged in a continuous leadership seminar series to further develop their leadership skills and mentored in implementing a change project in their home district. Fellows also receive focused mentoring on coaching and professional learning. The external evaluation is designed to examine in what ways the project develops participating teachers’ digitally-rich teaching practices, culturally sustaining pedagogical practices, and teacher leadership practices. This Track 3: Master Teaching Fellowships project is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce). The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-12 STEM teachers and experienced, exemplary K-12 teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the effectiveness and retention of K-12 STEM teachers in high-need school districts.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.