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

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），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补助金写作技能。波多黎各教师迫切需要身体，情感，教学和财政支持，使他们能够刷新，恢复活力，并适应从生存到繁荣的过渡，在这个流行病推动的“新常态”。波多黎各高等教育研究人员协会，繁荣不仅仅是生存（心脏）会议将为教师提供这种支持，以治愈，学习，分享和成长，以更好地支持西班牙裔STEM学生和波多黎各的HSI。会议将汇集来自全岛的高等教育研究项目的教师。会议将讨论健康，赠款写作支持，虚拟和/或混合学习（特别是在STEM）的最佳实践以及文化能力教育等主题。这四个主题，结合成一个事件，将提供全面的支持，为教师是在教育研究计划，旨在提高成果的实施第一线西班牙裔学生在干和广泛的高等教育在波多黎各。如果教师们相互支持，关注自己的健康，接受撰写有竞争力的赠款的培训，并在文化支持环境中接受混合和/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。这项混合方法评估研究的设计和分析基于Kezar的（2013）通过“意义建构”的组织学习框架。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才能有效。会议的参与者将了解其他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（1）教师健康，（2）通过持续对话创建社区，（3）赠款写作和（4）文化响应的主题。主要目标是（1）从公关装备HSI教师，以满足今天的“新常态”的挑战，专注于自己的健康;（2）创建一个持续的对话，在波多黎各和美国的HSI之间的合作的重要性;（3）授权教师使用西班牙裔学生的最佳实践，以促进成功和（4）接受竞争性赠款写作的培训（以确保资金支持其工作）。会议活动将产生教师改善教师福利，归属感，自我效能在赠款写作，并在课堂上实施最佳实践，以支持干学生的证据。这一证据将用于寻求额外的资金，以支持会议的年度迭代，其长期目标是在岛上建立一个自我维持的教育研究协会，这将促进波多黎各的HSIs在高等教育研究方面的长期卓越，以及与美国大陆的合作，以促进教育研究，为学生的成功建立能力。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，并建立HSI的能力。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.