CSforAll: RPP: Programming the Acceleration of Computing and Equity in Massachusetts 2 (PACE2)

麻省理工学院(MIT)提出了推进计算教育的途径(PACE2)，这是一个由麻省理工学院教学系统实验室(TSL)、CSforMA和马萨诸塞州联邦12个不同学区组成的联盟推动的研究人员-实践者合作伙伴关系(RPP)。PACE2参与者的共同目标是扩大马萨诸塞州计算机科学(CS)中未得到充分服务的群体的计算参与，这些群体包括女性、黑人和西班牙裔/拉丁裔、低收入学生、英语学习者和残疾学生。PACE2学区的长期目标是处理CAPE框架的四个方面，以促进公平的计算机科学教育：提高计算机科学教育的能力，扩大计算机科学课程的机会，扩大代表不足的群体的参与，以及确保计算机科学课程的公平体验。正在进行的实践社区将每个地区的多方利益攸关方团队聚集在一起，包括CS教师、部门负责人、指导顾问以及学校和地区领导人，以确保在扩大计算机科学参与和改善经验方面采取连贯一致的地区范围的方法。在整个马萨诸塞州加强CS教育将需要为不同的学区创建一套多样化的途径-具有不同的课程结构、人口构成和每个学生的支出-以在帮助所有学生达到并超过马萨诸塞州的数字素养和计算机科学标准方面取得进展，并弥合全州存在的许多与CS教育相关的机会差距。PACE成员将参加为期一年的研讨会，包括由NSF以前资助的工作开发的一流项目，如战略CSfor ALL研究和实施规划工具(SCRIPT)和计算顾问(C4C)，以及新的编程。这些新开发的专业学习经验侧重于通过数字临床模拟改善公平教学实践，并开发监控工具和计划，以跟踪整个学区CS教育在实现机会和结果公平方面的进展。该项目将在这些初步学习经验的基础上反复改进第二年，并为扩大有PACE研究员的地区数量制定道路。该项目将为更大规模的RPP奠定基础，让其他利益相关者参与马萨诸塞州的CS教育。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。

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) proposes Pathways for Advancing Computing Education (PACE2), a researcher-practitioner partnership (RPP) facilitated by the MIT Teaching Systems Lab (TSL), CSforMA, and consortium of 12 diverse school districts across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. PACE2 participants share the common goal of broadening participation in computing for underserved groups in computer science (CS) in Massachusetts: females, Black and Hispanic/Latinx, low-income students, English learner students and students with disabilities. The long-term objectives of PACE2 districts are to address the four dimensions of the CAPE framework for equitable CS education: improving Capacity for CS education, expanding Access to CS courses, broadening Participation of underrepresented groups, and ensuring equitable experiences in CS courses. The ongoing community of practice brings together multi-stakeholder teams within each district including CS teachers, department heads, guidance counselors, and school and district leaders to ensure coherent, district-wide approaches to broadening participation and improving experiences in computer science. Strengthening CS education across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will require creating a diverse set of pathways for different districts—with different curriculum structures, demographic compositions, and per pupil expenditures—to make progress towards helping all students meet and exceed the Massachusetts Digital Literacy and Computer Science standards and close the many opportunity gaps related to CS education that exist throughout the state. PACE members will participate in a yearlong sequence of workshops, including best-in-class programs developed by prior NSF-funded work like the Strategic CSforALL Research and Implementation Planning Tool (SCRIPT) and Counselors for Computing (C4C), along with new programming. These newly developed professional learning experiences focus on improving equity teaching practices through digital clinical simulations and developing monitoring tools and programs for tracking progress towards equity of opportunity and outcomes in CS education across the district. The project will iteratively improve on these initial learning experiences for a second year and map out pathways for expanding the number of districts with PACE fellows. The project will set the stage for a larger RPP that engages other stakeholders engaged in CS education in Massachusetts.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.