NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant: Developing a Shared Vision for Supporting the Mathematics Identities of Underrepresented Individuals

这项NSF INCLUDES规划拨款由美国国家科学基金会全国工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者学习者社区（NSF INCLUDES）资助，这是一项全面的国家倡议，旨在通过关注多样性、包容性和扩大STEM的大规模参与来增强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。该计划拨款的目标是建立一个共同的愿景，通过将正式和非正式的数学教育领导者聚集在一起，就如何共同努力应对这一挑战制定一个共同的愿景，以应对日益扩大的参与挑战，即来自代表性不足的群体的个人无法公平地获得支持作为数学学习者、实施者和专业人士的积极身份的机会和经验。这一共同愿景的创建将是实现NSF INCLUDES目标的重要一步，该目标是增加那些传统上在STEM领域服务不足和代表性不足的人的积极参与。该项目包括三项主要活动：一个讲习班；工作小组;还有一个综合会议。为期三天的研讨会将包括40名代表K-12和高等教育整个数学教育生态系统的正式和非正式教育领导者，他们将开始建立社区，分享最佳实践和改进领域，并阐明共同议程，包括需要解决的关键议题，以便在扩大参与挑战方面取得进展。由讲习班参与者组成的工作组将在讲习班结束后的六个月内每月举行一次视频会议。每个工作组将专注于在研讨会上确定的一个关键主题，以便就如何通过五个包括设计元素来解决他们的主题提出建议，包括可能需要哪些技术基础设施和研究。每个小组将生成一份报告，概述他们的发现，供PI团队在撰写战略计划时使用。最后，pi将举行为期两天的综合会议，将工作组的建议整合到一个公开传播的合作网络战略计划中，该计划将有可能改变未被充分代表的学生和专业人士如何看待自己与数学的关系。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This NSF INCLUDES planning grant is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale. The goal of this planning grant is to develop a shared vision to address the broadening participation challenge that individuals from underrepresented groups do not have equitable access to opportunities and experiences that support positive identities as mathematical learners, doers, and professionals by bringing together formal and informal mathematics education leaders to develop a shared vision for how to work together to address this challenge. The creation this shared vision will constitute a significant step toward attaining the NSF INCLUDES objective of increasing the active participation of those who have been traditionally underserved and underrepresented in STEM fields.The project includes three primary activities: a workshop; working groups; and a synthesis meeting. The three-day workshop will include forty formal and informal education leaders representing the entire mathematics education ecosystem across K-12 and higher education to begin building community, sharing best practices and areas for improvement, and articulating a common agenda including key topics that will need to be addressed in order to make progress on the broadening participation challenge. Working groups composed of workshop participants will meet monthly by videoconference throughout the six months following the workshop. Each working group will focus on a key topic identified at the workshop in order to develop recommendations for how their topic might be addressed through the five INCLUDES design elements, including what technical infrastructure and research might be needed. Each group will generate a report providing an overview of their findings for use by the PI team in writing the strategic plan. Finally, the PIs will meet in a two-day synthesis meeting to integrate the recommendations of the working groups into a publicly disseminated strategic plan for a collaborative network that will have the potential to transform how underrepresented students and professionals view themselves in relation to mathematics.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.