The Wind River Elementary Computer Science Collaborative: Supporting Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Computer Science Education in Indigenous Communities

怀俄明州是风河保护区的所在地，东部肖肖尼人和北部阿拉帕霍人都居住在那里。除了迫切需要增加学生接受计算机科学教育的机会外，东部肖肖尼人和北阿拉帕霍人高度重视教学和保护他们的文化传统，这既反映了强烈的社区价值观，也反映了对历史不公正的回应。为了响应这些学区的优先事项和兴趣，风河保留地上有小学的三个学区与美国研究院、怀俄明州教育部、Botup专业发展和合作伙伴改善形成了研究-实践合作伙伴关系，称为风河初级计算机科学合作。该项目建立在先前研究的基础上，在这些研究中，项目组开发了基础计算机科学项目和课程，整合了东部肖肖尼和北阿拉帕霍的历史、语言和文化；为小学教师和准教育者提供专业发展；并研究了基础计算机科学项目的实施。在学校、地区和部落领袖的支持和支持下，协作组将促进基础计算机科学的可持续性，并开发资源支持其他地区采用成功的计算机研究教学程序。该项目将直接服务于三所土著学生服务的小学，每年18名教师，6名行政人员，最多18名高中生导师和400多名小学生。拟议的活动是：(A)扩大协作组，将更多小学教师纳入其中，并纳入高中、近乎同行的导师；(B)支持迄今对协作组工作至关重要的教师协作形式；(C)通过持续不断地就部落和学校领导以及家庭参与活动进行沟通，进一步吸引风河社区的参与；(D)开展研究。具体地说，这项研究将调查通过计算机科学教授土著研究如何与维持文化响应的计算机科学教学的现有框架有关并加以扩展，并评估参与协作的教师是否以及为什么在教授计算机科学方面表现出更高的自我效能，以及通过计算机科学教授土著研究的学生是否以及为什么会发展出感觉与其土著遗产相一致的计算机科学特性。该项目的目的是在土著研究和计算机科学教育的交汇处产生关于专业发展和实施模式的概括性知识。这些模式将丰富外地对如何应用综合教学框架以提高土著学生计算机科学教育的文化相关性的理解，其结果将为今后以研究为基础的方法提供指导，以提高计算机科学教育对其他传统上在计算机科学中代表性不足的群体的文化相关性。该项目增进了关于通过计算机科学教授土著研究如何支持小学生和高中导师积极的身份认同发展的知识。该奖项由全民计算机科学：研究和RPP计划支持。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。

Wyoming is home to the Wind River Reservation, where both the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho people live. Alongside the urgent need to increase access to computer science education for their students, the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho people place a high priority on teaching and preserving their cultural traditions, reflecting both strong community values and a response to historical injustices. In response to these district priorities and interests, three school districts with elementary schools on the Wind River reservation have formed a research-practice partnership with the American Institutes for Research, Wyoming Department of Education, BootUp Professional Development, and Partner to Improve, called the Wind River Elementary Computer Science Collaborative. This project builds on prior research in which the project team developed elementary computer science projects and lessons that integrated history, language, and culture of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho; provided professional development for elementary teachers and paraeducators; and studied implementation of elementary computer science projects. With buy-in and support from school, district, and tribal leaders, the Collaborative will promote the sustainability of elementary computer science and develop resources to support other districts in adopting successful processes for teaching Indigenous studies through computer science.The project will directly serve three Indigenous student-serving elementary schools, 18 teachers per year, six administrators, up to 18 high school student mentors, and 400+ elementary students. The proposed activities are (a) to expand the Collaborative to include more elementary teachers and incorporate high school, near-peer mentors; (b) to support forms of teacher collaboration that have been critical in the Collaborative's work to date; (c) to further engage the Wind River community through ongoing communication to tribal and school leadership and family engagement events; and (d) to conduct research. Specifically, the research will investigate how teaching Indigenous studies through computer science relates to and expands an existing framework for culturally responsive-sustaining computer science pedagogy and to assess whether and why teachers participating in the collaborative show increased self-efficacy for teaching computer science and whether and why students experiencing Indigenous studies instruction through computer science develop computer science identities that feel compatible with their Indigenous heritages. This project aims to produce generalizable knowledge about models of professional development and implementation at the intersection of Indigenous studies and computer science education. These models will enrich the field's understanding of how frameworks for integrated instruction can be applied to increase the cultural relevance of computer science education for Indigenous students, and the results inform future research-based approaches to increasing the cultural relevance of computer science education for other groups traditionally underrepresented in computer science. The project advance knowledge about how teaching Indigenous studies through computer science can support positive identity development for elementary students and high school mentors. This award is supported by the Computer Science for All: Research and RPPs program.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.