Preparing Urban Lakeshore Science Educators (PULSE)

准备城市湖滨科学教育家（PULSE）项目汇集了威斯康星大学帕克赛德分校作为牵头机构，威斯康星大学奥什科什分校和拉辛联合学区作为核心合作伙伴。这些合作伙伴正在与基诺沙联合学区和其他学区以及威斯康星州校区的大学建立广泛的合作伙伴关系，以共同的愿景来解决城市和郊区学生之间的科学成就差距以及教师流动率高的挑战。该伙伴关系汇集了大学科学和教育教师，地区科学教师，以及来自大学和学区的管理人员，对科学专业发展的文献和资源进行彻底审查，特别是3-8年级，并对地区教师进行全面的需求分析。需求分析包括收集和分析调查和焦点小组数据的特点教师的需求和审查学生的成绩数据，具体的意图，探讨教师短缺，减员和保留，职前准备，在职专业发展的问题，并在科学的学生成绩的障碍。对需求的进一步了解正在指导专业发展讲习班课程的编制。正在开发基础设施，以便在各种场所举办讲习班，包括当地教室、区域教师学院和互联网/视频会议。该项目的中心目标是制定一个以实践为基础的可复制计划，以覆盖3-8年级的职前和在职科学教师，其专业发展侧重于教授科学的技能和知识，特别强调了解城市教育环境中面临的挑战和问题。在建立多个高等教育和K-12机构之间的伙伴关系的过程中，项目团队还研究了建立伙伴关系的过程，特别是研究如何最好地支持不同类型的城市学区。合作伙伴打算创建一个MSP目标提案，旨在实证调查高等教育的几个公共机构的不同需求，挑战，成功和机会，与几个K-12学区的人口，地理和绩效水平不同的合作伙伴关系。威斯康星大学帕克赛德分校（University of Wisconsin-Parkside）是一所以本科为主的公立大学，拥有威斯康星州系统中最多样化的校园，吸引了来自威斯康星州东南部城市走廊的大部分学生，他们的收入和教育水平低于该州其他地区。威斯康星大学奥什科什分校的规模几乎是帕克赛德校区的三倍，虽然主要是本科，但也有硕士学位课程。拉辛联合学区为来自城市，郊区和农村社区的约21，000名学生提供服务，包括21所小学，7所中学和3所高中。总体而言，近一半的学生来自少数民族。这个MSP启动项目的结果包括合作建设活动，需求评估和计划模型。这些产品将通过会议和出版场所公开分享。

The Preparing Urban Lakeshore Science Educators (PULSE) project brings together the University of Wisconsin-Parkside as lead institution, and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and the Racine Unified School District as core partners. These partners are working with the Kenosha Unified School District and other school districts and University of Wisconsin campuses to establish a broad partnership with a shared vision to address the science achievement gap between urban and suburban students and the challenge of high teacher turnover. The partnership brings together university science and education faculty, district science teachers, and administrators from the universities and school districts, to conduct a thorough review of the literature and resources for science professional development, particularly for grades 3-8, and a comprehensive needs analysis of area teachers. The needs analysis includes collecting and analyzing survey and focus group data on characteristic teacher needs and reviewing student achievement data, with specific intentions to explore questions about teacher shortages, attrition and retention, pre-service preparation, in-service professional development, and barriers to student achievement in science. A greater understanding of the needs is guiding the development of curricula for professional development workshops. Infrastructure is being developed to offer workshop sessions in a variety of venues, including local classrooms, regional teacher academies, and internet/videoconferences. The central goal of the project is to develop an empirically-based and replicable plan to reach pre-service and in-service science teachers of grades 3-8 with professional development focused on skills and knowledge to teach science, with particular emphasis on developing an understanding of the challenges and issues faced in urban educational settings. In the course of building the partnership across multiple higher education and K-12 institutions, the project team is also studying the process of partnership-building, with particular focus on studying how best to support different types of urban school districts. The partners intend to create an MSP-Targeted proposal designed to empirically investigate the different needs, challenges, successes, and opportunities of several public institutions of higher education in collaborative partnership with several K-12 school districts whose demographics, geography, and performance levels differ. The University of Wisconsin-Parkside is a public, primarily undergraduate university with the most diverse campus in the University of Wisconsin system, drawing the majority of its students from an urban corridor in southeastern Wisconsin with lower income and educational levels than the rest of the state. The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is nearly three times the size of the Parkside campus, and while primarily undergraduate, also has master's degree programs. The Racine Unified School District serves approximately 21,000 students from a mix of urban, suburban, and rural communities, and includes 21 elementary schools, 7 middle schools, and 3 high schools. Overall, nearly half of students served are from racial minorities. The results of this MSP-Start project include collaboration-building activities, the needs assessment, and the program model. These products are to be shared publicly through conference and publication venues.