“Puerto Rican Higher Education Researchers Association, Thriving not just Surviving (HEARTS) conference

在改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）的支持下，本次会议旨在支持波多黎各的教师，使他们能够通过实施最佳实践和改善教师健康来影响西班牙裔学生的保留率和毕业率，从而提高学生/教师的参与度和教师的资助写作技巧。波多黎各的教师迫切需要身体、情感、教学和财政方面的支持，以便他们能够恢复活力，恢复活力，适应在这场大流行引发的“新常态”中从生存到繁荣的过渡。波多黎各高等教育研究人员协会，繁荣不仅仅是生存（HEARTS）会议将为教师提供这种支持，以治愈，学习，分享和成长，以更好地支持西班牙裔STEM学生和波多黎各的hsi。会议将汇集来自全岛各地高等教育研究项目的教师。会议将讨论健康、资助写作支持、虚拟和/或混合学习（特别是STEM）的最佳实践以及文化胜任教学法等主题。这四个主题合并为一个活动，将为处于教育研究项目实施第一线的教师提供全面支持，这些项目旨在改善波多黎各拉美裔学生在STEM和更广泛的高等教育方面的成果。如果教师们相互支持，关注自己的健康，接受撰写竞争性补助金的培训，并在文化支持的环境中接受混合和/或虚拟STEM教学的最佳实践培训，以促进西班牙裔STEM学生的成功，他们将更好地应对这种“新常态”的挑战。本混合方法评估性研究的设计和分析基于Kezar（2013）通过“意义制造”进行组织学习的框架。该项目将帮助教师“理解”他们的价值，以及他们如何需要个人健康和更强大的社区来发挥作用。与会者将了解到其他STEM教师和管理人员成功的能力建设努力，这些努力导致了学生的成功。会议将讨论以下主题：(1)教师健康；(2)通过持续对话创建社区；(3)拨款写作；(4)文化响应教学法。主要目标是：(1)通过关注自身健康，使公共关系学院的教师能够应对当今“新常态”的挑战；(2)就波多黎各和美国hsi之间合作的重要性建立持续的对话；(3)授权教师使用西班牙裔学生的最佳实践来促进成功；(4)接受竞争性拨款写作的培训（以确保资金支持他们的工作）。会议活动将提供证据，证明教职员工的幸福感、归属感、申请写作中的自我效能，以及在课堂上实施最佳实践，以支持STEM学生。这些证据将用于寻求额外的资金来支持会议的年度迭代，其长期目标是在岛上形成一个自我维持的教育研究协会，这将促进波多黎各hsi高等教育研究的长期卓越，并与美国大陆合作，促进教育研究，培养学生成功的能力。HSI计划旨在加强HSI的本科STEM教育和能力建设。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this conference aims to support faculty in Puerto Rico so that they can impact the retention and graduation rates of Hispanic students through implementing best practices and improving faculty wellness, resulting in improved student/faculty engagement and faculty grant-writing skills. Puerto Rican faculty are in urgent need of physical, emotional, pedagogical, and financial support so that they can refresh, rejuvenate, and adapt to transition from surviving to thriving in this pandemic-fueled “new normal.” The Puerto Rican Higher Education Researchers Association, Thriving not just Surviving (HEARTS) Conference will provide this support for faculty to heal, learn, share and grow to better support Hispanic STEM students and the HSIs of Puerto Rico. The conference will bring together faculty in higher education research programs from across the island. The conference will address topics of wellness, grant-writing support, best practices for virtual and/or hybrid learning (especially in STEM) and culturally competent pedagogy. These four topics, combined into one event, will offer holistic support for the faculty that are on the frontlines of the implementation of education research programming that seeks to improve outcomes for Hispanic students in STEM and broadly in higher education in Puerto Rico. Faculty will be better equipped to meet the challenges of this “new normal” if they are supported by each other, focused on their own wellness, trained for writing competitive grants, and trained in best practices for hybrid and/or virtual STEM instruction in a culturally supportive environment to promote the success of Hispanic STEM students.The design and analysis of this mixed-methods evaluative research study are based on Kezar’s (2013) framework of organizational learning through “sensemaking.” The project will help faculty “make sense” of their value and how they require personal wellness and stronger communities to be effective. Participants in the conference will learn about successful capacity-building efforts of other STEM faculty and administrators which resulted in student success. The conference will address the topics of (1) faculty wellness, (2) creating communities through sustained dialogues, (3) grant-writing, and (4) culturally responsive pedagogies. The main goals are to (1) equip HSI faculty from PR to meet the challenges of today’s “new normal” by focusing on their own wellness; (2) create a sustained dialogue on the importance of collaboration among HSIs in Puerto Rico and in the US; (3) empower faculty to use best practices for Hispanic students to promote the success and (4) receive training for competitive grant-writing (to secure funds to support their work). The conference activities will generate evidence of faculty improved faculty wellbeing, sense of belonging, self-efficacy in grant-writing, and implementation of best practices in the classroom to support STEM students. This evidence will be used to seek additional funding to support yearly iterations of the conference with the long-term goal of forming a self-sustaining education research association on the island that will foster long-term excellence in higher education research for HSIs in Puerto Rico as well as collaborations with the US mainland to promote education research that builds capacity for student success. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.