Cambio: A Professional Development Approach for Building Latinx-focused Cultural Competence in Informal Science Education Institutions

这个项目在推进非正式干（科学，技术，工程和数学）学习计划的发展轨道的创新旨在建立非正式科学教育（伊势）机构的专业能力，为拉丁美洲观众的有效参与。探索博物馆和儿童的发现博物馆（CDM）的圣何塞之间的合作，Cambio是一个专业发展项目的前提下，发展特定于拉丁社区和干学习的文化能力，连同组织变革能力，将使伊势机构提高他们的能力，是拉丁社区，文化和观众的包容性。Cambio的最终目标是通过建立伊势领域的能力，有效地让拉丁美洲人参与非正式的STEM学习，从而扩大对STEM的参与。伊势机构和其他校外计划和组织在激励和准备下一代Latinx STEM学生，员工和教育工作者方面发挥着重要作用。Cambio的参与者将加深与这一角色相关的研究和实践的参与，并建立什么扩大拉丁参与可以和应该看起来像在他们的机构的理解。Cambio项目的核心是为伊势机构及其工作人员创建一个专业发展（PD）模型，该模型综合了：（a）关于Latinx参与非正式STEM学习的战略的当前知识;（b）关于拉丁美洲参与非正式STEM学习的战略的当前知识;（c）关于拉丁美洲参与非正式STEM学习的战略的当前知识;（d）关于拉丁美洲参与非正式STEM学习的战略的当前知识;（e）关于拉丁美洲参与非正式STEM学习的战略的当前知识;（f）关于拉丁美洲参与非正式STEM学习的当前知识。（B）以前由国家科学基金会资助的项目，这些项目利用这些知识为该领域指明了前进的道路;以及（c）CDM的文化能力学习研究所专业发展计划，旨在培养博物馆的文化能力、包容性和组织变革。这种综合将形成一个强大的专业发展平台，有可能在非正式科学机构与拉丁美洲观众合作的方式上创造一个全领域的转变。Cambio专业发展计划将包括：一个新的专业发展框架和课程，将达到15个机构的54名从业人员;开发和传播专业发展工具和资源，供伊势从业人员使用;一个专注于拉丁美洲参与非正式STEM学习的实践社区; Cambio PD模型有效性的证据;形成性和总结性评估产生的知识，将告知其他伊势努力，重点是增加拉丁美洲人在STEM的参与。一个干重点将编织在整个专业发展的经验，重点明确对拉丁文化和身份和干之间的交叉领域。从业者将提高他们在设计体验方面的专业知识，这些体验将激发情感参与，激发好奇心和兴奋感，明确重视拉丁裔身份。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This project in the Advancing Informal STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Learning program's Innovations in Development track aims to build professional capacity in Informal Science Education (ISE) institutions for effective engagement of Latinx audiences. A collaboration between The Exploratorium and the Children's Discovery Museum (CDM) of San Jose, Cambio is a professional development project based on the premise that developing cultural competence specific to Latinx communities and STEM learning, together with organizational change capacity, will enable ISE institutions to improve their ability to be inclusive of Latinx communities, cultures, and audiences. Cambio's ultimate aim is to broaden participation in STEM by building the ISE field's capacity to effectively engage Latinxs in informal STEM learning. ISE institutions and other out-of-school programs and organizations have an important role to play in inspiring and preparing the next generation of Latinx STEM students, employees, and educators. Cambio participants will deepen their engagement with the research and practice relevant to this role and build an understanding of what broadening Latinx engagement can and should look like in their institutions. Working with expert instructors and coaches, and together as peers, Cambio participants will apply what they learn to real-world strategic initiatives they implement at their home institutions.The heart of the Cambio project is the creation of a professional development (PD) model for ISE institutions and their staff that synthesizes: (a) current knowledge about strategies for Latinx engagement in informal STEM learning; (b) previous NSF-funded projects that leveraged that knowledge to chart a way forward for the field; and (c) CDM's Cultural Competence Learning Institute professional development program for building cultural competence, inclusion, and organizational change in museums. This synthesis will form a robust professional development platform that has the potential to create a field-wide shift in the way informal science institutions approach working with Latinx audiences. The Cambio professional development program will include: a new professional development framework and curriculum that will reach 54 practitioners in 15 institutions; the development and dissemination of professional development tools and resources for use by ISE practitioners; a Community of Practice focused on Latinx engagement in informal STEM learning; evidence of the efficacy of the Cambio PD model; and knowledge generated by formative and summative evaluation that will inform other ISE efforts focused on increasing the participation of Latinxs in STEM. A STEM focus will be woven throughout the professional development experience that focuses explicitly on areas of intersection between Latinx culture and identities and STEM. Practitioners will increase their expertise in designing experiences that will invoke emotional engagement, spark curiosity and excitement, in ways that explicitly value Latinx identities.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.