Physical Scientists in K-14 Math and Science Education

该奖项为NSF提供支持，以继续利用新墨西哥州（所有州中人均排名第三）大量STEM专业人员的实验，帮助改善圣达菲地区K-14数学和科学教育，并提高社区数学和科学的形象。这项实验是圣达菲科学联盟（safs）和圣达菲公立学校（SFPS）的合作项目，于2005年5月开始。2010年，合作伙伴关系扩大到包括圣达菲社区学院（SFCC）， 2011年新墨西哥大学（物理与天文学系）成为管理合伙人。本实验试图回答的基本问题是：(1)如何利用STEM专业人员的资源来实现有效的变革？(2)如何将这群在数学和科学方面训练有素的内容专家塑造成一个有效的教学实体？(3)如何修改或重塑现有的教育模式，以利用这一人才库？(4)这些有特殊技能的人如何帮助学生和公众对数学和科学的美丽、力量和价值产生更大的兴趣，并将这些思想带到我们社会的各个阶层？怎样才能最有效地处理必然会出现的社会和政治问题？safs的广泛目标是帮助K-14学生在数学和科学方面取得成功，使他们拥有从各种职业中选择所需的技能。SFAFS努力为圣达菲的大量学生、家长和老师带来丰富的数学和科学内容。因此，safs志愿者在他们的职业生涯中积累了大量的数学和科学内容知识，作为知识基础和灵感，为广泛不同的学生提供了有益的“第二次生命”。

This award provides NSF support to continue an experiment that utilizes the very large population of STEM professionals in New Mexico (third per capita among all states) to help improve K-14 math and science education in the Santa Fe area, and to raise the profile of math and science in the community. This experiment, a partnership between the Santa Fe Alliance for Science (SFAFS) and the Santa Fe Public Schools (SFPS), began in May, 2005. In 2010, the partnership was extended to include Santa Fe Community College (SFCC), and in 2011 the University of New Mexico (Department of Physics and Astronomy) became the managing partner. The essential questions that this experiment seeks to answer are: (1) How can this resource of STEM professionals be utilized to make effective change happen? (2) How can this group of highly trained content experts in math and science be molded into an effective pedagogical entity? (3) How can existing educational modalities be modified, or reshaped, to take advantage of this talent pool? (4) How can these specially skilled individuals help create greater student and public interest in the beauty, power and value of math and science, and bring these ideas to all segments of our community? (5) How can the social and political issues that will certainly arise be dealt with most effectively? SFAFS's broad goal is to help K-14 students succeed in math and science so that they have the skills necessary to choose from a variety of careers. SFAFS has built an effort that brings greatly enriched math and science content to a large number of students, parents and teachers in Santa Fe. Thus the enormous math and science content knowledge accumulated by SFAFS volunteers during their careers has a rewarding "second life" as a knowledge base and inspiration for a widely diverse demographic of students.