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

在不断改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(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拉美裔学生的留校率和毕业率，从而提高学生/教师的参与度和教师撰写补助金的技能。波多黎各的教职员工迫切需要身体上、情感上、教学上和经济上的支持，以便他们能够恢复活力，适应从生存到繁荣的过渡，在这个由流行病引发的“新常态”中。波多黎各高等教育研究人员协会，欣欣向荣不仅仅是生存(心脏)会议将为教师提供这种支持，以治愈、学习、分享和成长，以更好地支持拉美裔STEM学生和波多黎各的HSI。这次会议将汇集来自全岛的高等教育研究项目的教职员工。会议将讨论健康、赠款编写支持、虚拟和/或混合学习的最佳做法(特别是在STEM)和具有文化能力的教育学等主题。这四个主题结合在一起，将为在实施教育研究方案的第一线的教师提供全面的支持，该方案旨在改善STEM和波多黎各高等教育的拉美裔学生的成果。如果教员们相互支持，专注于自己的健康，接受撰写竞争性助学金的培训，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，以促进拉美裔STEM学生的成功，那么他们将更好地准备迎接这一“新常态”的挑战。这项混合方法评估性研究研究的设计和分析基于Kezar(2013)通过“制造感觉”进行组织学习的框架。该项目将帮助教师“理解”他们的价值，以及他们如何要求个人健康和更强大的社区才能有效。与会者将了解其他STEM教职员工和管理人员在能力建设方面所做的成功努力，这些努力使学生取得了成功。会议将讨论(1)教师健康，(2)通过持续对话创建社区，(3)拨款申请，和(4)响应文化的教学。主要目标是(1)让公关的HSI教员通过关注自己的健康来迎接当今“新常态”的挑战；(2)就波多黎各和美国的HSI之间合作的重要性建立持续的对话；(3)使教员能够使用拉美裔学生的最佳实践来促进成功；(4)接受竞争性拨款撰写的培训(以获得资金支持他们的工作)。会议活动将产生证据，证明教师改善了教师的幸福感、归属感、在撰写补助金时的自我效能，以及在课堂上实施最佳做法来支持STEM学生。这些证据将被用来寻求额外的资金来支持会议的年度迭代，长期目标是在岛上建立一个自给自足的教育研究协会，促进波多黎各高等教育机构在高等教育研究方面的长期卓越，以及与美国大陆的合作，以促进培养学生成功能力的教育研究。HSI计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育和HSI的能力建设。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NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.