CAREER: Black and Latinx Parents Leading Reform and Advancing Racial Justice in Elementary Mathematics

数十年的数学教育改革努力继续让黑人和拉丁裔儿童失败，部分原因是家长被排除在关于学校数学的决策之外。尽管如此，黑人和拉丁裔家庭经常坚持支持他们各自的孩子，但为了满足每个学生的需求，家长们必须转变为集体组织，成为学校数学的改革者。这个项目探索了由父母带头进行本地化改变的可能性。通过明确说明如何培养和加强黑人和拉丁裔家长与社区组织和教师团结一致的参与，该项目可以为寻求在数学教育中促进种族公正的其他社区和学校提供一个范本。通过批判性的社区参与奖学金，并与十个黑人和拉丁裔家庭、十名教师和两个社区组织合作，研究小组将共同设计和共同研究两个旨在促进小学数学种族正义的教育项目。第一个项目旨在培养家长在当地社区的教室和学校中催化变革的能力；第二个项目将提供教师专业发展，支持小学数学教师与黑人和拉丁裔家庭学习。利用叙事调查和社会网络分析的混合方法研究设计将通过满足两个研究目标来促进教育项目模型的完善：(1)了解黑人和拉丁裔家长在建设领导变革的能力时的经历；(2)研究家长-教师-社区伙伴关系的发展、性质和影响，以促进数学领域种族正义的共同愿景。研究结果可能会扩大该领域对社区发起和社区主导的学校数学变革的理解，并产生一个有助于确保黑人和拉丁裔学生在数学教育中获得更多机会和机会的模式。探索研究预科-12项目(DRK-12)旨在通过研究和开发创新资源、模型和工具，显著提高预科-12年级学生和教师在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)方面的学习和教学。DRK-12计划中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究和先前的研究和开发努力的基础上，这些研究和开发工作为拟议的项目提供了理论和经验证明。这是一个教师早期职业发展计划项目，以响应国家科学基金会范围内的一项活动，该活动提供最负盛名的奖项，以支持有潜力在研究和教育中充当学术榜样的早期职业教师。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。

Decades of reform efforts in mathematics education continue to fail Black and Latinx children, in part, because parents are excluded from decisions about school mathematics. Nonetheless, Black and Latinx families often persist in supporting their individual children, but a shift toward collective organizing among parents as change agents in school mathematics is necessary for meeting the needs of every student. This project explores possibilities for localized change led by parents. By making explicit how to foster and increase Black and Latinx parents’ engagement in solidarity with community organizations and teachers, this project could provide a model for other communities and schools seeking to advance racial justice in mathematics education. Through critical community-engaged scholarship and in collaboration with ten Black and Latinx families, ten teachers, and two community organizations, the research team will co-design and co-study two educational programs aimed at advancing racial justice in elementary mathematics. The first program seeks to build parents’ capacity to catalyze change across classrooms and schools within their local communities; and the second program will provide teacher professional development that supports elementary teachers of mathematics to learn with and from Black and Latinx families. A mixed methods research design that utilizes narrative inquiry and social network analysis will facilitate refinement of the educational program models by addressing two research objectives: (1) to understand the experiences of Black and Latinx parents as they build capacity to lead change and (2) to study the development, nature, and impact of parent-teacher-community partnerships that promote a shared vision for racial justice in mathematics. Findings could extend the field's understanding of community-initiated and community-led change in school mathematics and produce a model that helps ensure increased access and opportunity for Black and Latinx students in mathematics education.The Discovery Research preK-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects. This is a Faculty Early Career Development Program project responsive to a National Science Foundation-wide activity that offers the most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education.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.