BPRC Planning Grant: Nurturing Resilient Students and Teachers

历史黑人学院和大学-本科生计划(HBCU-UP)为开展机构自我分析和开展研究提供支持，为扩大参与研究中心做准备。扩大参与研究中心预计将成为严格研究和广泛传播关键教育学和文化敏感干预措施的全国中心，有助于HBCU成功地教育非裔美国STEM本科生。弗吉尼亚州立大学的BPRC规划项目寻求建立一个持续的学术充实计划体系，允许学生，特别是那些在STEM领域代表性不足的学生，在小学期间进入一系列协调的干预措施，并在大学时退出。在整个项目的入学过程中，学生将有机会利用他们的技能和经验回馈他们的社区。每一年级的干预措施的重点也将是鼓励最优秀和最聪明的人自己成为数学和科学教师。STEM教育中心是一个多层次的教师和辅导发展计划，面向教师和学生的每个学习和准备阶段。STEM教育中心方法的基石是将HBCU与当地学区配对的Pre-K-16模式。STEM教育中心旨在培养学生对STEM学科的兴趣、动机和毅力，并在所有发展水平上培养有效的教学和指导技能。该计划将使学生、教师、大学教职员工、导师、教育管理人员和社区利益相关者接触到各种全年社区参与和暑期充实计划。该培训旨在提高STEM学科学生的积极性和毅力，并提高这些学科的教与学的有效性。目标受众是来自学校的学生，这些学校的大多数学生通常在州规定的标准化考试中成绩垫底的四分位数。这个项目将动员潜在的支持者大军，他们的目标与学校系统相同：提高标准化考试成绩，特别是在数学和科学方面。此外，这个项目还有一个额外的好处，那就是最终培养出训练有素的数学和科学教师，他们愿意、能够并致力于在这些学区工作。每个年级的干预措施也将旨在解决我们的研究揭示的影响非裔美国学生STEM学习的关键心理社会和认知因素。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) provides support to undertake an institutional self-analysis and conduct research in preparation for a Broadening Participation Research Center. Broadening Participation Research Centers are expected to serve as a national hub for the rigorous study and broad dissemination of the critical pedagogies and culturally sensitive interventions that contribute to the success of HBCUs in educating African American STEM undergraduates. The BPRC Planning project at Virginia State University seeks to build a system of sustained academic enrichment programs that will allow students, particularly those who are under-represented in STEM fields, to enter a series of coordinated interventions while in elementary school and exit them when in college. While matriculating throughout the program, students will be given opportunities to use their skills and experiences to give back to their community. The focus of the interventions with each grade level cohort will also be to encourage the best and brightest to become Math and Science teachers themselves.The Center for STEM Education is a multi-tiered teacher and mentoring development program for teachers and students at every stage of learning and readiness. The cornerstone of the Center for STEM Education approach is the preK-16 model that pairs HBCUs with local school districts. The Center for STEM Education is designed to develop student interest, motivation, and persistence in STEM disciplines and to cultivate effective teaching and mentoring skills at all levels of development. This program will expose students, teachers, university faculty, mentors, education administrators, and community stakeholders to a variety of year-round community engagement and summer enrichment programing. The training is designed to increase the motivation and persistence of students in STEM disciplines and enhance the effectiveness of teaching and learning in those disciplines. The target audience are students from schools where most students routinely score in the bottom achievement quartile of state-mandated standardized tests. This project will mobilize a potential army of supporters with the same objective as the school system: increasing standardized test scores, particularly in math and science. In addition, this project has the added benefit of eventually developing well-trained math and science teachers that are willing, able and committed to work in those very school districts. The interventions at each grade level will also be designed to address the key psychosocial and cognitive factors that have been revealed by our research to impact STEM learning in African American students.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.