A National Resource Hub for Culturally Relevant and Responsive STEM Environments at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

在改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构计划(HSI计划)的支持下，该中心项目旨在实现三个不同的目标：1)促进西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)的合作和联网；2)支持HSI教师的专业发展；以及3)产生和传播关于HSI的知识。为了同时利用多个变革杠杆来实现公平的教育结果，并为学生提供代表HSI各种人才的文化验证环境，许多HSI通过为教师提供与文化相适应和相关的教学方面的专业发展来做出回应。通过创造利用有限资源的机会，可以加强这些有价值的地方努力。该项目将通过为全国不断增长的公共和私人HSI网络创建一个免费访问的基于Web的HSI资源中心，为分散的HSI信息环境提供另一种选择。这个HSI资源中心将把美国数百个现有和新兴的HSI的STEM教员聚集在一起。该项目将创建一个STEM学者社区，他们不仅采用，而且促进/培养他们的文化响应和相关的教学方法。该中心将综合和定期更新关于什么在人类安全倡议背景下有效的信息，以最大限度地减少教育改革的试错方法，并培养持续的实践社区。该项目旨在通过开发与文化相关和反应迅速的教学的专业发展工具包，为教师提供专业发展，实现无缝资源共享，利用知识生产，并增加联网机会，来改善HSIS学生的教育公平和STEM教育。此外，该中心还将包括其他活动，重点是传播高等职业教育机构的实用和学术知识，包括高等职业教育机构关于STEM教育的学术研究数据库、关于扩大STEM参与的基于资产的方法的两年一次的专题简报、一个在线专业学习社区，以及一个供高等职业教育机构教职员工协作和共享资源的在线论坛。这些努力将促进以经验为基础的做法的传播，以支持具有文化响应性和相关性的教育学。该项目由HSI计划资助，该计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育，扩大对STEM的参与，并建设HSIS的能力。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 Program (HSI Program), this Hub project aims to accomplish three distinct goals to: 1) foster Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) collaboration and networking; 2) support HSI faculty professional development; and 3) generate and disseminate knowledge by and about HSIs. In an effort to simultaneously engage multiple levers of change to achieve equitable educational outcomes and culturally validating environments for students that represent the full spectrum of diverse talent at HSIs, many HSIs respond by offering professional development for faculty on culturally responsive and relevant pedagogies. These worthwhile local efforts can be enhanced by creating opportunities for leveraging limited resources. This project will offer an alternative to a decentralized HSI information landscape by creating a freely accessible web-based HSI-Resource Hub for the nation’s growing network of public and private HSIs.This HSI Resource Hub will bring together STEM faculty across the hundreds of current and emerging HSIs in the United States. The project will create a community of STEM scholars who not only adopt, but also advance/cultivate their culturally responsive and relevant pedagogy. The Hub will synthesize and regularly update information on what works in HSI contexts to minimize trial and error approaches to education reforms and to nurture an ongoing community of practice. The project intends to improve educational equity and STEM education for students at HSIs by developing a professional development toolkit on culturally relevant and responsive teaching, offering faculty professional development, enabling seamless resource sharing, leveraging knowledge production, and enhancing opportunities for networking. In addition, the Hub will include other activities focused on the dissemination of practical and scholarly knowledge by and about HSIs, including a database of scholarly research on STEM education at HSIs, bi-annual topical briefs on asset-based approaches for broadening participation in STEM, an online professional learning community, and an online forum for faculty at HSIs to collaborate and share resources. These efforts will facilitate the spread of empirically based practices supporting culturally responsive and relevant pedagogy. This project is funded by the HSI Program, which aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs.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.