From Black Boys to Men in a Multiyear STEM Education Intervention and Mixed Methods Research Project

概念化的社区为基础的模式，提高招聘，参与，并过渡到干黑人男学生的教学角色，同时保留和推进黑人男教师是至关重要的，以解决他们的显着和历史上不成比例的代表性在教学生涯。该项目探讨了阻止黑人男学生追求STEM专业的系统性障碍，并采取了以力量为中心的方法来培养黑人男STEM教师的临界质量。该项目将通过开发概念和方法框架来推进基础知识，这些框架将询问STEM教师人员配置挑战中的系统性障碍，同时扩大激励STEM领域黑人男孩和男子的可能性。该项目利用学术机构（乔治王子郡公立学校、乔治王子郡社区学院和鲍伊州立大学）及其各行业和社区合作伙伴之间的真正伙伴关系，增加中学后学校和专业机构中黑人男孩和男子的人数。这项应用研究有可能影响学校系统，社区学院和四年制大学如何共同努力，制定分层的方法来招募和留住黑人男孩和男子在干education.Through混合方法的设计，该项目调查黑人男学生的干途径从中学到干教学专业通过各种方案的努力。努力包括以社区为中心的外展，本科生的早期临床教学经验，以及参与STEM教师和导师的专业发展。这个多机构从事黑人男孩和男子在干从整个职业道路连续体，出席了许多空白的研究文献有关的黑人男孩和男子在干教育的种族化的经验，特别是：1）系统的种族主义如何影响他们的招聘，发展，自然减员，保留和晋升;以及2）黑人男学生在STEM教育计划中的个人和集体种族化经历如何为招募黑人中学男生成为STEM教师的循证策略提供信息。此外，它揭示了黑人男学生的黑人导师对STEM教育和职业道路的影响。该项目由STEM教育计划中的种族平等（EHR种族平等）资助。该计划支持研究和实践项目，调查种族平等因素如何影响科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和劳动力的改善。获奖项目旨在集中STEM企业内受系统性不平等影响最大的个人，社区和机构的声音，知识和经验。该计划符合NSF的核心价值观，即支持来自全国人口群体，地区和组织类型多样性的优秀研究人员和创新思想家。EHR种族平等基金来自EHR各项目，以表彰其项目与董事会四个部门的集体研究和开发目标的一致性。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标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Conceptualizing a community-based model that enhances the recruitment, engagement, and transition to STEM teaching roles for Black male students while retaining and advancing Black male teachers is critical to addressing their significant and historically disproportionate representation in teaching careers. The project explores systemic barriers that dissuade Black male students from pursuing STEM majors and takes a strength-focused approach to fostering a critical mass of Black male STEM teachers. This project will advance foundational knowledge by developing conceptual and methodological frameworks that interrogate the systemic barriers in the STEM teacher staffing challenge, while expanding the possibilities of motivating Black boys and men in STEM fields. This project leverages the work of authentic partnerships between academic institutions (Prince George's County Public Schools, Prince George’s County Community College and Bowie State University) and their various industry and community partners to increase the number of Black boys and men in postsecondary schools and professional settings. This applied study has the potential to impact how school systems, community colleges, and four-year universities work together to develop tiered approaches to recruiting and retain Black boys and men in STEM education.Through mixed methods designs, this project investigates Black male students’ STEM pathways from middle school to the STEM teaching profession through various programmatic efforts. Efforts include community-centered outreach, early clinical teaching experiences for undergraduate students, and professional development for participating STEM teachers and mentors. This multi-institutional engages Black boys and men in STEM from across the career path continuum, attends to many gaps in the research literature pertaining to racialized experiences of Black boys and men in STEM education, specifically: 1) how systemic racism impacts their recruitment, development, attrition, retention and advancement; and 2) how Black male students’ individual and collective racialized experiences in a STEM education program should inform evidence-based strategies for recruiting Black middle school boys to become STEM teachers. Further, it sheds light on the impact of Black men mentors of Black male students on STEM education and career pathways. This project is funded through the Racial Equity in STEM Education program (EHR Racial Equity). The program supports research and practice projects that investigate how considerations of racial equity factor into the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce. Awarded projects seek to center the voices, knowledge, and experiences of the individuals, communities, and institutions most impacted by systemic inequities within the STEM enterprise. This program aligns with NSF’s core value of supporting outstanding researchers and innovative thinkers from across the Nation's diversity of demographic groups, regions, and types of organizations. Funds for EHR Racial Equity are pooled from programs across EHR in recognition of the alignment of its projects with the collective research and development thrusts of the four divisions of the directorate.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.