Health in Our Hands: Building and sustaining student engagement in genomic and environmental health sciences through a community-school partnership

这一拟议项目旨在应对以下方面确定的挑战并充分实现 国家环保总局早些时候资助的两个项目的潜力：一个项目于2012年完成， 社区基因组意识(授予代码：R25RR022703)；以及我们目前的项目(2014- 2019)，一种新的学校和社区基因组框架(授权码：8 R25 GM129186-05)。这些项目的重点是解决现代基因组学的关键需求 课堂教学与课堂教学相结合的初中和高中课程 社区让学生和社区成员都有机会理解、解释 并将健康相关现象的想法应用到他们与基因环境相关的生活中 相互作用、自然选择和进化。 这些项目的实施已经在学生中产生了成功的证据 在学习和兴趣的同时，它也产生了三个方面的挑战，使其充分实现 潜力：1)与下一代科学标准保持一致，这些设备 与那些教师熟悉的不同，建立社区联系也是 难以协调；2)保持和加强学生参与度的潜力是 受限于学年内的短时间和每年缺乏连续性；3) 该项目向学校提供的支持程度表明，有必要为 一旦赠款期限结束，来自内部来源的持续支持。 这项研究性教育计划勾勒出一种新颖的科学教育设计。 它结合了三个组成部分：1)高质量的课程材料，2)创新的专业人员 学习，以及3)社区健康/科学教育联盟。这些组件可以工作 共同支持和维持基因组和环境健康学习并激发兴趣 在学校内外代表不足的初中生和高中生的职业生涯中。这个 结果将是一个新的、创新的、可持续的教育计划，包括以下内容 特点：1)“健康在我们手中”，是一套连贯的中学课程， 最大限度地加深学生的理解；2)将教师与实践共同体联系起来 与非正式的教育者，学习新的教学实践，建立无缝的联系 在课堂和社区之间，并使学生能够应用他们所学到的东西 到现实世界的健康问题；3)与健康相关的“更好的弗林特健康”联盟 组织，提供导师和基于社区的活动，并为未来提供支持 在此资助期满后，学习计划的增长。

This proposed project intends to address challenges identified by and realize the full potential of two earlier SEPA-funded projects: a project completed in 2012, Education for Community Genomic Awareness (Grant Code: R25RR022703); and our currently project (2014- 2019), A New Genomic Framework for Schools and Communities (Grant Code: 8 R25 GM129186-05). These projects focused on addressing the critical need for modern genomics curriculum for middle and high school students by connecting classroom instruction with the community to give both students and community members opportunities to understand, explain and apply ideas about health-related phenomena to their lives tied to gene-environment interactions, natural selection, and evolution. The implementation of these projects has produced evidence of success in student learning and interest, it has also produced three challenges to the realization of their full potential: 1) Aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards, these units are vastly different than those teachers are familiar with and making community connections are also difficult to orchestrate; 2) The potential for maintaining and enhancing student engagement was limited by short periods during the school year and lack of continuity from year to year; 3) The extent of support provided by the project to schools suggests the need to develop a model for sustained support from internal sources once the grant period is over. This research educational program plan outlines a novel design for science education that combines three components: 1) high quality curriculum materials, 2) innovative professional learning, and 3) a community health/science education consortium. These components work together to support and sustain genomic and environmental health learning and inspire interest in careers for underrepresented middle and high school students both in and out of school. The result will be a new, innovative, sustainable educational program with the following characteristics: 1) “Health in Our Hands”, a coherent set of curricula for secondary grades that maximizes deepening of student understanding; 2) A “Community of Practice” linking teachers with informal educators, learning new teaching practices, making seamless connections between the classroom and community, and enabling students to apply what they have learned to real-world health issues; 3) “Greater Flint Health in Our Hands” consortium of health-related organizations, providing the mentors and the community-based activities, and support for future growth of the learning program after the expiration of this grant.