GSE/EXT: NGCP: Building the Capacity of STEM Practitioners to Develop a Diverse Workforce

智力优势：教育实验室小组建议利用国家女童合作项目（National Girls Collaborative Project， NGCP）模式的各个方面，扩大NGCP的覆盖范围和影响，该模式已在之前的一个nsf资助项目中成功实施。拟议的推广服务项目将使用在前一个项目中开发和测试的综合变革方案，该方案利用合作扩大和加强女童和妇女的stem相关机会。NGCP模式通过创建一个由研究人员、推广服务代理和从业者组成的网络，促进网络内的合作，并提供高质量的基于研究的专业发展，实现了这一目标。拟议的项目将扩大所提供的专业发展网络和类型，为该领域更多的领导人和从业者提供服务，并最终影响更多的女孩。NGCP的合作模式改变了从业人员和教育工作者促进女孩参与STEM的方式。它促进了从业人员对良好的性别平等教育实践的认识，对早期教育在STEM劳动力发展中的作用的认识，以及当地和全国同行的相互支持。NGCP目前为近300万女孩提供服务，下一阶段的项目将继续以更高的质量和效率为她们提供服务，并为至少50万名女孩和约1.3万名STEM从业者提供更广泛的服务。它将有助于提高科学和工程素养，以及STEM劳动力的发展。更广泛的影响：这项拟议的第二阶段工作将发展11个新的区域合作，将服务的州数量从28个增加到41个，并纳入具有重要代表性的少数民族地理区域，这些少数民族在STEM方面的服务严重不足。该项目将重点开展培训和专业发展活动，使从业人员能够吸引和服务代表性不足的女孩；促进区域合作以提高可持续性；扩大外联和传播，使学校辅导员能够准确地告知和鼓励女孩学习STEM。EdLab集团将与美国学校辅导员协会、评估工程项目中的女性和男性以及DO-IT（残疾、机会、互联网和技术）合作，扩大NGCP的覆盖面和影响。

Intellectual Merit: The EdLab Group proposes to leverage aspects of the National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) model, successfully implemented in a previous NSF-funded project, to expand the reach and impact of the NGCP. The proposed extension services project would use the comprehensive program of changed developed and tested in the previous project that uses collaboration to expand and strengthen STEM-related opportunities for girls and women. The NGCP model accomplishes this by creating a network of researchers, extension service agents and practitioners, facilitating collaboration within this network, and delivering high-quality research-based professional development. The proposed project will expand the network and type of professional development offered, serving more leaders and practitioners in the field and, ultimately, impacting more girls.The NGCP's collaborative model changes the way practitioners and educators work to advance girls participation in STEM. It facilitates the development of practitioners in their knowledge of good gender equitable educational practices, awareness of the role of early education in STEM workforce development, and mutual support of peers locally and cross the country. Nearly 3 million girls are currently served under the umbrella of NGCP, and this next phase project will continue to serve them with greater quality, effectiveness, and provide a broader reach to a minimum of 500,000 additional girls and approximately 13,000 additional STEM practitioners. It will contribute to greater science and engineering literacy, and STEM workforce development.Broader Impacts: This proposed second-phase effort will develop 11 new Regional Collaboratives, increasing the number of states served from 28 to 41 and incorporating geographical areas with significant representation of ethnic minorities who are greatly underserved in STEM. The project will focus training and professional development activities for practitioners to engage and serve underrepresented girls; for Regional Collaboratives to improve sustainability; and to expand outreach and dissemination to better equip school counselors to accurately inform and encourage girls in STEM. The EdLab Group will partner with the American School Counselor Association, Assessing Women and Men in Engineering Project, and DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) to expand the reach and impact of NGCP.