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

在改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构计划（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）的合作和网络；2)支持HSI教师专业发展；3)产生和传播hsi的知识。为了同时参与多种变革杠杆，为代表hsi中各种人才的学生实现公平的教育成果和文化验证环境，许多hsi通过为教师提供文化响应和相关教学法的专业发展来应对。可以通过创造利用有限资源的机会来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信息景观提供另一种选择。这个HSI资源中心将汇集美国数百家现有和新兴HSI的STEM教师。该项目将创建一个STEM学者社区，他们不仅采用，而且还推进/培养他们的文化响应和相关教学法。该中心将综合并定期更新在HSI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，并培育一个持续的实践社区。该项目旨在通过开发与文化相关和响应性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，以及增加网络机会，改善人文科学学院学生的教育公平和STEM教育。此外，该中心还将包括其他活动，重点是传播hsi的实践和学术知识，包括hsi的STEM教育学术研究数据库，两年一次的关于扩大STEM参与的基于资产的方法的专题简报，一个在线专业学习社区，以及一个供hsi教师合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实践的传播，这些实践支持具有文化敏感性和相关性的教学法。本项目由科学与技术研究所资助，旨在加强科学与技术研究所的本科教育，扩大科学与技术研究所的参与，并加强科学与技术研究所的能力建设。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 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.